Document root on another PC

Hi!
Using a windows 2000 Network I have got one PC containing all the documents
for the internet. The Apache is installed on another PC and I wanted to set
the DocumentRoot to the location at the Doecument Server...it doesn't work
this way:
DocumentRoot "\\10.1.1.1/c$/wwwroot" using the default share
and it doesn't work that way
DocumentRoot "\\10.1.1.1/c/wwwroot"
BUT it works as soon as I use an alias...
Alias /xyz/ "\\10.1.1.1\c$\Inetpub\wwwroot"
I don't want to use a work around with mod rewrite aso. it must be possible
somehow, isn't it?

Thanks
Kolja

In article <bg2qmv$7nn$03$1@news.t-online.com>,
"Kolja Engelmann" <dragonslayerde@t-online.de> wrote:

> Hi!
> Using a windows 2000 Network I have got one PC containing all the documents
> for the internet. The Apache is installed on another PC and I wanted to set
> the DocumentRoot to the location at the Doecument Server...it doesn't work
> this way:
> DocumentRoot "\\10.1.1.1/c$/wwwroot" using the default share
> and it doesn't work that way
> DocumentRoot "\\10.1.1.1/c/wwwroot"
> BUT it works as soon as I use an alias...
> Alias /xyz/ "\\10.1.1.1\c$\Inetpub\wwwroot"
> I don't want to use a work around with mod rewrite aso. it must be possible
> somehow, isn't it?

you should mount the disk containing data on the server (using samba may
work, NFS will work) and use le path to the mounting point, not the IP
to the remote server. (and, well, it's an absolutely stupid way of
serving http...
Other solution : turn on the personal web sharing of the PC hosting the
data, and set your apache to use mod_proxy so that request to
http://apache_ip/ will fetch http://data_host/

patpro