Then you need to first disable the same and mount the shared folder manually.

If you have configured the shared folder to be auto mounted. (You can find the GID for vboxsf in /etc/groups) Make sure that returns the same GID as vboxsf. I think you may better off handling this with an Alias directive as that will allow you to make only certain parts of your DocumentRoot point to locations outside: Alias /info /media/sf_DevĮDIT: If the Apache server has mod_php (not FastCGI PHP) and is not using suexec, you can determine if Apache is running under the proper GID (group ID) with the following PHP snippit: virtualbox shared folder permission

You can file this in Apache's error_log, which is typically under /var/log/apache2/error.log under Ubunt, but can be configured via an ErrorLog Directive in your You didn't say what the specific error was, onlyĪnd Apache doesn't seem to see the index.html I put in that directory

What am I doing wrong, what do I need to do to get Apache2 to serve files from that directory? (technically I want to serve files for apache from /media/sf_Dev/apache/www but I figure one step at a time, so if that helps you short-circuit things, so be it) I also tried editing envvars to make the group be vboxsf but I think I did that part wrong. sf_DevĪnd Apache doesn't seem to see the index.html I put in that directory ( cp /var/www/index.html /media/sf_Dev/ iirc) wwwĪnd when I ls -l /media/ I see drwxrwx- 1 root vboxsf. I want to change Apache2 to point the DocumentRoot to that folder, so I edited /etc/apache2/sites-available/default to replace the existing two paths in that file to /media/sf_Dev/ instead of /var/When I look at /var with ls -l I see drwxr-xr-x 2 root root. I setup Ubuntu 11.04 desktop 32 bit on a VirtualBox VM with a shared folder to the host.

Virtualbox shared folder permission