apache, winxp, remote directory?

[stuartc1]

Hi -

Anyone know if his will work?

I currently need to develop my PHP stuff on windows XP, I have IIS installed but for some reason it will not allow me to specify a directoty on the network (only local directories). In win NT it allowed this!!!

Anyway its not a good idea for me to be copyfiles back and forward between directories each time in need to test something.

I think apache may be the answer - can i install apache and specify a network address (\\drivename\myfiles)?

So to explain - I have PHP\MySQL\Some Web Server running on my system (Windows XP), the files I need to have parsed are sitting on a directoty somewhere else on the company network. Is it easy enough just to specify the directoy in apache?

My guess is this is simple to do...

Cheers Folks :)

[daphreeek]

I'm not sure about this - have never tried it.

I say go with apache because its a hell of a lot better than IIS (personal opinion). I like how easy it is to customize. Im still not sure if you can set a network address as root tho - if not you can try this:

map a drive letter to the network directory - i cant remember how to do this however. then IIS should be able to use that drive letter as a document root.

That may work for IIS or Apache - no guarantees tho :)

- matt

[stuartc1]

PLEASE anyone!

I still need to do this. I have apache installed and my document root is currently at:
C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs

I need to run my scripts from:
\\common\stuart\intranet\

please help :(