Serve documents from alternative document root - php

Question

I would like Apache to serve documents from c:/Apache24/htdocs and d:/www resp on my Windows local machine. In httpd-vhosts.conf I'm trying:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/htdocs"
ServerName test.localhost
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
<Directory "D:/www">
AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
and in hosts
127.0.0.1 test.localhost
but browsing to http://test.localhost results in a list of directories under C:/htdocs being displayed?
Am I getting any closer with this:
Alias c:/Apache24/htdocs D:/www
<Directory c:/Apache24/htdocs>
Require all granted
</Directory>
If so, where do I add it? N.B. I want to store and serve web documents from D:/ since C:/ is getting rather full now.

Answer 1

check you have row: NameVirtualHost *:80 before your virtual host. That should usually be there already, but check it.
Change your host to point just into one folder like:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/www"
ServerName localserver
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
<Directory "D:/www">
AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Create symbolic link from your c:/Apache24/htdocs to for example D:/www/apache folder.
Then you can access to your c:/Apache24/htdocs folder from url:
localserver/apache
Read more about symlinks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link
Another option is to create two urls (domains) and virtualhosts like (add this after above):
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/htdocs"
ServerName other.localserver
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
<Directory "c:/Apache24/htdocs">
AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
and in your hosts:
127.0.0.1 localserver other.localserver

Answer 2

On Windows 7 with WAMP installed on C:\Apache24 and serving documents out of C:\Apache24\htdocs you may want to serve documents from the D drive instead, since C is getting full. Go to: C:\Apache24\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/www/apache/site1"
ServerName site1.dev
<Directory "D:/www/apache/site1">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/www/apache/site2"
ServerName site2.dev
<Directory "D:/www/apache/site2">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And edit: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
127.0.0.1 site1.dev
127.0.0.1 site2.dev
You should now be able to serve (locally) you're web documents from D:\www\apache with no need for sym links.