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Asked: 2026-05-28T08:13:40+00:00

I’m setting a new virtual machine (Windows 7) hosted on another Windows 7. I

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I’m setting a new virtual machine (Windows 7) hosted on another Windows 7.

I want to set up an Apache environment in this virtual machine and I want DocumentRoot to be in host machine (so that they go in my schedulled backups and other stuff). WMWare lets you add host shared folders from within a virtual machine as network units, and so I can see them in in windows explorer as “Z:\myfoldername” (which is actually a folder of host machine), but when I set Apache DocumentRoot as “Z:\myfoldername” it won’t start, I see an error

Syntax error on line 178 of C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/httpd.conf:
DocumentRoot must be a directory

(ServerRoot remains in virtual machine)

In host machine I set all permissions to all users…

Is this possible to do? How?

Thank you

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  1. Editorial Team

    Finally I made Apache run under current user instead of as a Service under Local System as the problem was that Local System didn’t have a network unit called Z:.

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