Need to serve multiple directories/drives on windows

Server NGINX
1

Hello,

I’m interested in moving from Apache to nginx. What I’m doing with
Apache right now is serve files from multiple drives on windows. For
each drive I have a Directory entry in the httpd.conf and also an Alias
entry.
<Directory “e:/”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

<Directory “k:/”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

Alias /c c:/
Alias /e e:/
Alias /k k:/

I’ve tried setting the root in the nginx config file to “C:” (without
the quotes), but then nginx won’t start. I will need to serve files
from drives C:, E: and K: at the same time for one server box.

Please let me know if there is a way to define multiple locations like
this.

Thanks,
Daniel

2

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:13:54AM -0700, dwatrous wrote:

Allow from all
Alias /e e:/
Alias /k k:/

I’ve tried setting the root in the nginx config file to “C:” (without
the quotes), but then nginx won’t start. I will need to serve files
from drives C:, E: and K: at the same time for one server box.

Please let me know if there is a way to define multiple locations like
this.

location /c {
root c:/;
}

location /e {
root e:/;
}

location /k {
root k:/;
}

3

Thanks for the reply. This still isn’t working. Here is my entire
config file. As an initial test I’ve included only the C drive.

worker_processes 1;

events {
worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
server {
listen 50000;
server_name localhost;

location /c {
root c:/;
}

    location / {
        root   html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   html;
    }

}

}

I’ve tried it with just C:/, with both C:/ and / as shown here and with
all drives. The / location will always load, but the others won’t.
Here’s what I get
http://localhost:50000/ produces “Welcome to nginx!” with the log file
showing:
127.0.0.1 - - [16/Jun/2009:11:58:05 -0600] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 304 0 “-”
“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5”
127.0.0.1 - - [16/Jun/2009:11:58:05 -0600] “GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1”
404 169 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US)
AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5”

http://localhost:50000/c and http://localhost:50000/c/ and
http://localhost:50000/c/index.html (so in other words attempting to
download a file I know is there) produce 404 errors and the following
log messages:
127.0.0.1 - - [16/Jun/2009:11:59:00 -0600] “GET /c HTTP/1.1” 404 169 “-”
“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5”
127.0.0.1 - - [16/Jun/2009:11:59:07 -0600] “GET /c/ HTTP/1.1” 404 169
“-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5”
127.0.0.1 - - [16/Jun/2009:11:59:18 -0600] “GET /c/index.html HTTP/1.1”
404 169 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US)
AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5”

I’ve tried the same thing in Firefox in addition to Chrome and observed
basically the same output of 404 errors.

What am I missing?

Thanks.

4

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:01:00AM -0700, dwatrous wrote:

include       mime.types;

}

(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5"
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5"
What am I missing?
What is in error_log ?

5

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:01 AM, dwatrous[email protected] wrote:

  include    mime.types;

  }
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5"
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5"
What am I missing?

Thanks.

try removing location / { … } block

6

dwatrous wrote:

include       mime.types;
default_type  application/octet-stream;
sendfile        on;
keepalive_timeout  65;
server {
    listen       50000;
    server_name  localhost;

location /c {
root c:/;
}
replace the location with
location /c {
alias c:/;
}

If I remember correctly a request for /c/foo.html with the root
directive in the location results in nginx looking for the file
“c:\c\foo.html”, and not “c:\foo.html”
This was discussed quite recently on the mailing list.

/PoJ

7

Works like a charm. Thank you so much.

8

I’ve tried all combinations, including leaving out the location /.

Is there some way to increase logging to get a better idea of what nginx
is trying to do? Can anyone else get it working with the config file
I’ve submitted?

Thanks.

9

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Per Jonsson[email protected]
wrote:

      root  c:/;
This was discussed quite recently on the mailing list.

/PoJ

oh right, i completely forgot about this.

Well, there’s another solution if the partition is all ntfs: create a
folder which the subfolders are mount point for the drives.

(I personally find using alias is a headache when combined with fastcgi)