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How do I set the Apache2 DocumentRoot to a "vboxsf" VirtualBox Shared Folder? (permissions issue?)

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I setup Ubuntu 11.04 desktop 32 bit on a VirtualBox VM with a shared folder to the host. The shared folder is I want to change Apache2 to point the to that folder, so I edited to replace the existing two paths in that file to /media/sf_Dev/ instead of /var/www and it won't show index.html. When I l…

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/media/sf_Dev/

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It would probably be easiest to add the vboxsf group as a supplementary group for apache. Ubuntu: Fedora: This does it for me when I want to access auto mounted shared folders. You might also want to add your own username to the vboxsf group to acce…

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