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documentRoot and directory relative to serverroot in httpd

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I'm trying to set DocumentRoot and the following directory directive relative to ServerRoot:

DocumentRoot "../web"

DocumentRoot is working, but the Directory directive is not. It won't match. If I change the directory directive to an absolute path it will work. Any idea how I can get this to work?

posted Sep 3, 2013 by Naveena Garg

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