I have a machine with WinXP. At the moment it has a single drive C: which
is about 10GB I am keeping XP as the kids like playing little PC games, I
also do a little ASP development using IIS5.0

I would like to dual boot with Slackware so I can use Linux for everyday
use and just use XP for the lads and if I need to do any ASP work. what I
was going to do was get a second hard disk format about 15Gb as FAT32.
(maybe install IIS5 here) but definately have all my websites here. the
rest of the drive would be taken up with Slackware.

Under the slackware install I would install Apache and point it to the
websites on my FAT32 partition. so I could have a central repository for
all my websites, regardless of which OS I booted into.

Is this a workable idea or does anybody have any better soltion?

Cheers

Stuart

"Stuart Mueller" <none@none.com> wrote:
> Under the slackware install I would install Apache and point it to the
> websites on my FAT32 partition. so I could have a central repository for
> all my websites, regardless of which OS I booted into.
>
> Is this a workable idea or does anybody have any better soltion?

Yes, that would work. All you have to do is to edit
/etc/apache/httpd.conf and change the row

DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs"

to point to the directory where your FAT32 partition is mounted.

regards Henrik
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> Yes, that would work. All you have to do is to edit
> /etc/apache/httpd.conf and change the row
>
> DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs"
>
> to point to the directory where your FAT32 partition is mounted.
>
> regards Henrik

First, let me say that i've never tried this.. But to put my two cents
in anyway....

It seems to me, that it may work, but if these site are mission critical
in any way, shape, or form, I wouldn't try it. Apache might have
issues with the file permissions.. With a FAT32 drive mounted under
Linux, all files are assigned execute permissions, and i'm not sure
with the ownerships.

I would suggest, (i'm assuming these sites are for developement, and you
just want to be able to use the developement tools of both OS's) that
you go to ebay and buy the cheapest machine you can to duplicate the
final enviroment of the websites. Meaning, if the actual host for the
sites will be Linux/Apache, then go buy a cheap P-100 for a couple
bucks (literally, I just sold a P-133 with 1.2gig/cdrom/floppy/64mb ram
for 1$) and set it up with linux, apache, php.. whatever and use that
to store and host your developement sites.. then when you are done, and
the sites go into production, you won't have any more debuging
problems.. etc.. also, this would let you boot your main desktop
machine into whatever OS you wanted, and access your separate web
developement server by whatever means that OS provides.. (probally
ftp). For probally 20$ (including shipping) you should be able to get
a machine to server as your local web development host.

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