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Brian Dessent wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> Hmmm... As I said it appears to work in the local case. Or are you >> saying I should try to break that by playing with permissions? Are >> there any examples of "smbntsec" issues? >> >> I mean I suspect that if I do something as small as remove read >> permission for other on .htaccess then the server will not be able to >> read the file thus it would break. But what would that tell me? What >> exactly am I looking for? >> >> I may play with this as you suggest tomorrow at work. At home I don't >> use SMB for my web site - at least not yet. > > As a temporary solution, what happens if you mount the SMB share as a > drive and then use "/cygdrive/x/path" instead of the UNC style > "//machine/share/path"? If that made it work then it might indicate > that it's the path handling code somewhere (i.e. Apache not liking // > as a valid posix path) versus a permissions problem. Ah this works! And I get much shorter and consistent (in my mind) pathnames in my httpd.conf file! What I did is mount -bsf //sonscentral/users/adefaria/www /www. Now my DocumentRoot is simple /www, etc! So, to summarize, it appears that Apache under Cygwin is able to deal with web pages when paths are UNC paths of the form //<server>/<share>/<path>/<file> however the authentication module does not like such paths and seems to fail silently. Personally I believe that if the server can accept an UNC path then the authentication module should to likewise. Workarounds include moving your web site to your local drive (not a nice option for me because then it won't be backed up, which is why I stored it remotely), mount the remote location locally or make a symlink pointing to the remote location (I believe that worked too). Thanks for the help all. === BREAKFAST.COM Halted...Cereal Port Not Responding -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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