Relatively Physical

senshi · - Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 385 Location: UK

I put the following information into the server...

Server Root: \servers\
Documents Path: htdocs
Port: 80

went to aliases and added an alias

Virtual Path: /admin
Real Path: \servers\admin

it didnt like servers\admin kept saying Bad Path so I put \servers\admin

everything fine so far, I added a login ro the /admin alias and restarted the server which did not complain one bit.

I tried the URL http://localhost/admin and was prompted to log in and did so without any errors but got warned

TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

Taken From http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5279

senshi · - Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 385 Location: UK

Well the issue is that the real path is within the \servers\ folder, Abyss lives in this folder and not he abyss web server folder, so \servers\ is my root folder for the install and htdocs within that folder becomes my web root so putting the /admin folder anywhere else is only going to put the folder in to the servers scope.

if I use servers\admin the server does not like the entry and it says bad path but put \server\admin it accepts it without complaint.

the login I applied to the /admin alias works and http://localhost serves up the index.html page, use http://localhost/admin and it asks for a log in and then I get the page error after.

It appears that despite the settings, the server wont serve up unless the path is PHYSICALLY set with a drive letter. mayby a symbolic name sucah as %drive% to denote that the PHYSICAL path exists within the same drive that the server is running from the %drive% is the place holder that represents the drives assigned letter.

still doesn't get around the fact that the servers root can be set without a hint of a drive letter yet aliases seem to need an physical path and wont resolve a relative path from the servers settings.

TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

The server does need a drive letter path to point to the root where Abyss is on so what your
talking about is the path where you put the htdocs name in where htdocs is in your Abyss root.
Aliases tend to only work on local root paths where the server is installed to or using a drive
letter , Its impossible to do what your saying , You may try and get an answer from Aprelium
because I think they do have ideas to help people who want to take Abyss on removable drives.

senshi · - Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 385 Location: UK

See thats just it, allot of servers are too reliant upon having a fixed path, when a program is run, one of the environment variables available to the program is the root from which it was invoked, also the server has a path specified so combining the two, the server can check it exists within the invoked path and it can find the relative path by matching the root folder and htdocs folder to the invoked path, so in other words, the serve will be looking at the Command Line string and matching the \servers\htdoc portion of the servers settings to the CL string.

I just dont understand why it has never been implemented as it partly works, all it needs is some work done by the guys at aprelium dev team to help the server resolve relative paths pre & post web root.

this obviously will only work if all paths reside on the drive in question and live within the servers install path with no external paths to folders off that drive, the %drive% parameter or identifier idea would help the server recognise this, the server knows where to find htdocs, so I cant see how it can be an issue to find a relative path to the server.