Thanks for the answer, Knute, However I have already set ServerRoot to "C:/Program Files/Apache" and DocumentRoot to 'htdocs", therefore I assume it implies the document root will be "C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs", as indicated in your reply, correct?
The question is why I have to use <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs"> instead of <Directory "htdocs"> even though DocumentRoot is already set to "htdocs"? On Nov 29, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Knute Johnson wrote: > On 11/29/2012 3:10 PM, Alex Chen wrote: >> I downloaded the Apache 2.2.22 Windows msi and installed it as a console >> app, I copied all the files to C:/Program Files/Apache and uninstalled >> Apache to have a stock copy of the installation. >> I made the following changes in httpd.conf. >> >> ServerRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache" >> Listen 8080 >> LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so >> DocumentRoot "htdocs" >> ErrorLog "logs/error.log" >> >> <Directory "htdocs"> >> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks >> AllowOverride None >> Order allow,deny >> Allow from all >> </Directory> >> >> When I used IE to access http://localhost:8080, I got the following error: >> Forbidden >> >> You don't have permission to access / on this server. >> >> Apache/2.2.22 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/1.0.1c Server at localhost Port >> 8080 >> >> I saw the following entry in error.log >> [Thu Nov 29 14:15:39 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by >> server configuration: C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/ >> >> However if I changed the directory setting to the followings, it worked fine >> even though the DocumentRoot setting remained the same. >> >> <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs"> >> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks >> AllowOverride None >> Order allow,deny >> Allow from all >> </Directory> >> >> It seems that the DocumentRoot directive accepts a relative path name but >> the <Directory> structure requires the full path, is that the case? >> >> Alex > > This directive sets the directory from which httpd will serve files. Unless > matched by a directive like Alias, the server appends the path from the > requested URL to the document root to make the path to the document. Example: > > DocumentRoot /usr/web > > then an access to http://www.my.host.com/index.html refers to > /usr/web/index.html. If the directory-path is not absolute then it is assumed > to be relative to the ServerRoot. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
