Need to serve multiple directories/drives on windows

[Igor Sysoev]

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

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

location /c {
    root  c:/;
}

location /e {
    root  e:/;
}

location /k {
    root  k:/;
}


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