No, it could be a relative path, but it is **relative** to ServerRoot.
I set:
ServerRoot "/home/tianyin/httpd-2.4.3"
DocumentRoot "htdocs"
<Directory "htdocs">
......
</Directory>
And everything is perfectly fine.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Alex Chen <alex_c...@filemaker.com>wrote:
>
>> 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"?
>
>
> Because the documentation says that the <Directory > block always requires
> the full path:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#directory
>
> That was a design decision that was probably made years ago.
>
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