Change DocumentRoot to a folder in Win7

[liamoco]

Hello, I am currently dual booting win7 and Linux Ubuntu, I have install xampp on both OS, on win7 I have the DocumentRoot  directing to a folder on my desktop. On my Linux OS I also change the httpd.conf file to direct to that same folder on my win7 desktop, but when I tried to view the web pages on my browser I'm getting a forbidden error. Are there any permissions I need to change how do I do this? Why am I having these problems. If I need to specify any more details please say.

 

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

 

 

Thanks

[trq]

You need to ensure that the user Apache runs as (you can find this in your main httpd.conf file) has read permissions to the directory in question on both systems.

[requinix]

You have to mount the Windows drive partition in Ubuntu (it may be already, depending how you installed it) and point Apache to the path in there: "C:\XAMPP\whatever" will not work - it'll look more like "/mnt/windows/C/XAMPP/whatever".

 

Depending on the mount options, you might not have to worry about permissions. Linux can't use its permissions system on NTFS partitions; typically the fake permissions are set like "everybody can read, nobody can write" or "everybody can read and write". You'll probably want the latter.