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Serve web pages via Apache from a USB key drive
Authored by: punkish on May 27, '04 02:09:09PM

Nice, detailed hint. My comment has to do with just the following statement...

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The actual unix location of key drive BOB is /Volumes. Apache won't serve anything from there, so you need to go into your Sites directory and create a unix-style symbolic link to BOB.
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While the above may be true specifically for USB key drives, it is NOT true for drives mounted under /Volumes. I have an external firewire drive that is attached to my iBook. My entire website is on the external drive, and Apache serves it happily. The really cool thing about this setup is that if my iBook is down or away, I just grab the drive and stick it in a different computer. The path remains the same, and Apache on the new computer serves everything exactly the same (provided, of course, its conf is the same as the one on my iBook).



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