Wait... Then the document which specifies "a full path to a directory" is not correct.
-- Tianyin On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Tianyin Xu <t...@cs.ucsd.edu> wrote: > 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. >> > > > > -- > Tianyin XU, > http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tixu/ > -- Tianyin XU, http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tixu/
