I have 2 hard drives, and an Apache 2 server running on the first one. I would like to have access to files on hard drive 2 through Apache.

I tried everything I could think of and it's not working.

<IfModule mod_alias.c>
Alias /storage/ "/media/Geo Storage"

<Directory /media/Geo Storage>
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

</IfModule>

Hi and welcome to LQ,

You should give more details. What is your distro, apache logs etc.
In the meantime enclose path in the <Directory ...> directive in double quotes, as it contains a space. It should look like:
Regards

If the second drive is fixed and not removable, you should mount the filesystem on it where you want to access the files. Then it will be part of the filesystem. /media is for removable media.

jschiwal is right on making sure that the drive has been mounted in the files system, if you did partition the drive during installation then you can point your Apache Directory Path statement to that location as bathory has stated.

To verify that your drive has been mounted you can use either df or du -h this will list out all mounted partitions. If the drive is not mounted then you will need to make sure that the file system has "discovered" the drive. You can accomplish this by looking to the following set of folders:

/dev/disk/

by-id
by-path
by-uuid
these are on most all linux distros but not always. I usually look to the by-id folder
this is a partial printout:
ls -al /dev/disk/by-id/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 540 2011-11-01 22:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 2011-10-31 17:32 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2011-10-31 02:28 scsi-SATA_ST9320320AS_5SX5KNG2 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-10-31 02:28 scsi-SATA_ST9320320AS_5SX5KNG2-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-10-31 02:28 scsi-SATA_ST9320320AS_5SX5KNG2-part2 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-10-31 02:28 scsi-SATA_ST9320320AS_5SX5KNG2-part3 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-10-31 02:28 scsi-SATA_ST9320320AS_5SX5KNG2-part5 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-10-31 02:28 scsi-SATA_ST9320320AS_5SX5KNG2-part6 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-10-31 02:28 scsi-SATA_ST9320320AS_5SX5KNG2-part7 -> ../../sda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-10-31 02:28 scsi-SATA_ST9320320AS_5SX5KNG2-part8 -> ../../sda8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2011-10-31 02:28 usb-Generic-_Multi-Card_20071114173400000-0:0 -> ../../sdb

This print out shows that I currently have only 1 hard drive installed to the machine I am on at this time. If I had 2 drives in this machine it would show sda & sdb(SATA) or hda & hdb(IDE/PATA) and so on.

If you see a second drive "sdb" that is not mounted then you can do the following to "temporarily" mount the drive:

(THIS IS ONLY AN EXMAPLE)
mkdir /media/hdd2
mount /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST9320320AS_5SX5KNG2-part8 /media/hdd2


To add this drive to your file system so that it is auto-mounted when the machine is booted then you will need to edit the fstab file in /etc

For better instructions and a good reference point please visit the following:

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...HardDrive.html



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