Server Alias (network drive) using WAMP

Question

I have a folder on a network drive (X:/) and my WAMP is on C:/. I use WAMPS 'Add an alias' tool and point /bymnew/ to X:/Brief Your Market Integration/data/website. The alias is created and looks like this:

Alias /bymnew/ "x:/Brief Your Market Integration/data/website/" 

<Directory "x:/Brief Your Market Integration/data/website/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

I have also tried it with the server path:

Alias /bymnew/ "\\jacklogic2\projects\Brief Your Market Integration\data\website" 

<Directory "\\jacklogic2\projects\Brief Your Market Integration\data\website">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

However, this just causes Apache to not start. It only seems to happen on folders in X:/, as a few folders are already aliased to C:/

How can I find this out? httpd.exe is running as SYSTEM, and the `X:` drive has permissions for Everyone — rickyduck, Sep 08 '11 at 08:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 08 '11 at 14:27

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Mapped drives are per-user; your SYSTEM user doesn't see the same drives as the user that you're running as.

Try creating a new user (a service account) with the rights needed to run the Apache service, and set up the mapped drive under that user.

answered Sep 08 '11 at 14:27

Shane Madden

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 08 '11 at 00:23

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Alias /music "X:\Backups\Folders-Files\iTunes\iTunes Music\Music"
<Directory "X:\Backups\Folders-Files\iTunes\iTunes Music\Music">
  Options +Indexes
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

Consider using \'s not /'s

And don't add a trailing / to the alias.

answered Sep 08 '11 at 00:23

U4iK_HaZe

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Unfortunately this didnt work either – rickyduck Sep 08 '11 at 08:33
Aww. I really thoutht we hat that one in the bag – U4iK_HaZe Sep 08 '11 at 09:53
I wish we did :( – rickyduck Sep 08 '11 at 09:58
My silly iPod doesn't know how to type. I just realized last comment was incorrect in 2 places. Sad. But yes, I'll try to figure out something later today. Maybe we can fix it after all. – U4iK_HaZe Sep 08 '11 at 11:52
If you could that would be great. Serves you right for using an iPod! – rickyduck Sep 08 '11 at 12:14

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 04 '12 at 13:02

You should use forwardslashes or escape any backslashes. You should use the UNC path or make sure the network drive is mapped in the user account used to run the apache service as per the answer by Shane Madden. So:

Alias /bymnew/ "//jacklogic2/projects/Brief Your Market Integration/data/website/" 

<Directory "//jacklogic2/projects/Brief Your Market Integration/data/website/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Tip: If you delete the trailing slash from 'Alias /bymnew/' to become 'Alias /bymnew' you can use http://localhost/bymnew instead of http://localhost/bymnew/ to access your aliased directory.

Server Alias (network drive) using WAMP

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