WARNING when upgrading.

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WARNING when upgrading.

Postby solconnection » 10. May 2011 08:38

Remember that the HTDOCS folder is in the XAMPP folder, so when you upgrade, everything in HTDOCS is lost.

this is a silly file structure, HTDOCS should reside outside the core functionality of XAMPP so upgrading doesn't mean losing all your sites (which just happened to me)...worse still osx permanently erases everything, bypassing the trash, so it is unrecoverable.

learn from my mistake :) though it would be good if the xampp team prevented this from happening in the future with better folder structuring.
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Re: WARNING when upgrading.

Postby MegaChriz » 10. May 2011 14:16

Change the DocumentRoot in httpd.conf if you want your files at a different location:
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#
# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs"

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#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs">
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Re: WARNING when upgrading.

Postby MegaChriz » 10. May 2011 14:23

Alternatively, you can also create a virtual host.
If you want to do that by using a different port, you need to add
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AcceptMutex flock
in httpd.conf, because of a bug in XAMPP.

And then you can add a virtual host this way:
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Listen 1000
NameVirtualHost *:1000
<VirtualHost *:1000 >
    DocumentRoot "/Websites"
</VirtualHost>

See also /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
or http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/
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Re: WARNING when upgrading.

Postby solconnection » 19. June 2011 06:57

thanks guys, appreciated
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