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Re: Beginning questions... Jeff Justice <listaccount[at]starionline[dot]com> 06-03-2006
That did it.  Sheesh, sometimes something so simple....moving forward  
again...

Thanks for your patience...

Jeff J.


On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Bill Welliver wrote:

> I think the problem is the path you're using. We're working in the  
> UNIX
> domain here, so / is the "root" of your filesystem. The Finder  
> makes it
> confusing, because it shows you MyHardDrive as a "folder", which it  
> really
> isn't.
>
> If MyHardDrive is your main hard disk (ie the startup disk), then I'd
> change
>
> /MyHardDrive/MySiteFolder
>
> to
>
> /MySiteFolder
>
> and make your mountpoint
>
> /
>
> which should make things work.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Jeff Justice wrote:
>
>> I've tried both:
>>
>> /MyHardDrive/MySiteFolder/
>> MyHardDrive/MySiteFolder/
>>
>> and a few other variations.
>>
>> in both the Mount Point and the Search Path with no success.  Yes, I
>> do have an index.html in that folder and the Index files in Directory
>> Listings is set up right too it would appear.
>>
>> Jeff J.
>>
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Bill Welliver wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, that's the problem... the search path, if not preceeded by a /,
>>> is a
>>> "relative path", relative in this case to the location that roxen is
>>> installed. I normally like to test things out by using /tmp as my
>>> filesystem search path. Then you can see right away if things are
>>> working.
>>>
>>> The Finder doesn't normally show those folders, but you can see it
>>> in the
>>> finder by just using the "go to folder" menu option.
>>>
>>> Do let me know if you have any further problems or questions...
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Jeff Justice wrote:
>>>
>>>> I really think it's the search path that's the problem.  I can  
>>>> put my
>>>> own domain in the Primary Server URL, then the URL is set to
>>>> http://*:
>>>> 80/ and the example pages still come up.
>>>>
>>>> What is the search path relative to?  If I put in there  
>>>> "MyHardDrive/
>>>> MySiteFolder/" it doesn't work, so it would seem to me the search
>>>> path is relative to something other than the hard drive root.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff J.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Bill Welliver wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> One other thing would be to make sure that you're pointing to a
>>>>> valid
>>>>> point in the filesystem (ie your Filesystem module should have a
>>>>> search
>>>>> path defined).
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems like the request is getting through to roxen, the
>>>>> question is
>>>>> more a matter of which virtual server is handling it (if you've  
>>>>> got
>>>>> more
>>>>> than one virtual server configured to use the same port)
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>