how to alias a directory not available during startup

Hi there,

I do have several aliases in httpd.conf to other directories around
the drives. I found that when I alias directory which is for some
reason not available during service start, the service fails to start.

Is there a way to make an alias (or something like alias - some
hardlink etc) for a directory which does not exist (at least during
service start) - I want have the possibility to alias folders inside
directories and drives mounted later, after the service start. Now I
use a php script which fpassesthru the files, but I'm sure there must
be a more clever ("pure apache") way... ;-)

I'm running apache 2.0.59 on windows 2k3.

Thank you for an answer,
Y.

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On Jun 6, 8:59 am, Davide Bianchi
wrote:
> On 2007-06-05, yan...@mailinator.com wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to make an alias (or something like alias - some
> > hardlink etc) for a directory which does not exist (at least during
> > service start) - I want have the possibility to alias folders inside
> > directories and drives mounted later, after the service start. Now I
>
> This is not an apache problem, more an OS problem, you could either
> delay the start of the service until all the required links are in
> positions or use symlink to 'fake' the directory and then replace them
> with real links, but how to do so depends on the capabilities of the
> OS.
>
> Davide
>
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Thank you for reply.

It doesn't look like an OS problem, when I mount the drive, start
apache, and right then unmout, apache still works fine, except the
unmounted aliases are turned into 404, which is fine.

How do I make a symlink on a windoze XP OS? If it's possible at all...
To delay a service is not an solution for me :-( Any other ideas?

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On Jun 6, 3:36 pm, Davide Bianchi
wrote:
> On 2007-06-06, yan...@mailinator.com wrote:
>
> > How do I make a symlink on a windoze XP OS?
>
> I don't know. I've stopped using Windows when it was still 3.x
>
> Davide
>

Hi and thanks for help, I have googled about symlinks on windows and
it's really possible even on windows system to make a symlink (till
now I had no idea). Everything is solved with former sysinternal's
junction.exe :-)