[Avenir]

This has to be really simple, but I can't figure it out, nor can I dig up instructions that I know exist somewhere online...

basically, I want to change my default sharing directory in the macos personal websharing setup to a different hard drive (partition, within my computer, not external)

I know I should be changing the /Library/WebSharing/Documents string within the httpd.conf (and conf.default?) files to something like /Volumes/Drive2/Folder but it doesn't seem to work for me... Is there more to it? and if this has been discussed before, can anyone please point me in the right direction.

Thanks all

(PS - For those wondering the reason, I have a directory of rather large image and audio files to share with others that resides on the Drive2 partition. copying them to the system partition is not an option, I need to somehow redirect the personal websharing to the other drive, if it all possible.)

[registered_user]

edit the DocumentRoot in httpd.conf to show the new location and reboot Apache. The easiest way to reboot Apache is to just turn web sharing off and on again.

Should you find that Apache doesn't reboot properly, you've probably made a syntax error in httpd.conf.

Your line will look like something like:
DocumentRoot "/path/to/directory"

mine looks like this:
DocumentRoot "/Users/registereduser/Sites"
so that when I go to localhost, it goes to my user directory instead of the default.

[jay3ld]

there is 2 places in that config file to change your directory.

now i dont know about getting to a second hard drive.

I created a symbolic link and put it in my Main hard drive called Website
then in the config i changed the doc root to
/Website

then the symbolic link has done the rest for me.

[Avenir]

restart apache. brilliant (I'm retarded).

everything works great, /Volumes/Drive2/Folder worked perfectly

thanks all for the help