htdocs and rootdocuments question

[Angahran]

Hi,
I'm new to xampp.
I have a done a quick search and didn't find an answer so I'll ask here.

Is it possible to have 'MY' webpages in a different location to the 'xampp' pages ?
At the moment I have i have a folder : z:\beta-1.7.2-1\xampp\htdocs

This folder has the xampp webpages in \xampp
and my webpages in \mydocs

What I would like to do is create a common folder for my webpages : z:\htdocs\mydocs but keep the xampp pages in the version specific folders, so beta-1.7.2-1\xampp\htdocs\xampp

This way I would only need one copy of my pages but could access them from whichever version of xampp I was running.

Is this possible ?

Ang.

[Wiedmann]

and my webpages in \mydocs
..
create a common folder for my webpages : z:\htdocs\mydocs

So you want access your own webpages with "http://localhost/mydocs/"?
--> create an Alias in "httpd.conf".

[Angahran]

Ok, I have the alias but I'm obviously missing something else.

I added the line:

Alias /mydocs /beta-1.7.2/xampp/htdocs/mydocs

Edit: that wasn't the line I added, what I added was:

Alias /mydocs /htdocs/mydocs

But when I try to access the page I get:

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403
192.168.1.101
8/4/2009 4:21:15 PM
Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8k mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.0 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0

And if I look via FTP it says I have no permission to do anything : 0000

[Wiedmann]

Alias /mydocs /beta-1.7.2/xampp/htdocs/mydocs

Is there also a <Directory ...> block for this directory?