Relocate DocumentRoot of a Virtual Host to a different drive

[John Eng]

Hi

I have created a virtual host named test.local which works (who knew!)
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/Web Site 1"
ServerName test.local
</VirtualHost>

However, I would like to relocate Web Site 1 from drive C to a new folder on drive E.
I tried DocumentRoot Alias "C:/xampp/htdocs/Web Site 1" "E:/Docs Web Dev/Web Sites/Web Site 1" but Apache would not start.

How do I do this? Your help would be most appreciated!

Thank you.

[Altrea]

Hi,

Why using Alias? Alias is the right choice if you want to point a part of the url to a different physical place like grabbing all file requests from http://localhost/images from a place where all of your website images are saved. It is not the right choice to relocate an entire DocumentRoot and it cannot change one physical path to another, only part of URLs to paths.

You only need to change the DocumentRoot line and write a new access rule for the new folder.

[Nobbie]

What is drive E:? As Altrea already said, you have to change DocumentRoot to E:/Docs.... but drive letters from network drives (for example) are only known to the logged in Windows User. If you are running Apache as a service, it runs with SYSTEM User instead and wont know E:. Same for USB Sticks etc., only drive letters from builtin harddrives are known to all users.

[John Eng]

Thanks Altrea and Nobbie,

As per Altrea's instructions I added,

284 ServerName test.local:80

286 <Directory "E:/Docs Web Dev/Web Sites/Web Site 1">
287 AllowOverride All
288 Options None
289 Require local
290 </Directory>

and corrected,

583 <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
584 DocumentRoot "E:/Docs Web Dev/Web Sites/Web Site 1"
586 ServerName test.local
587 </VirtualHost>

and it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!!!

This is all new to me as you can tell.

Thanks again. Much appreciated.