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         mikewilder Newbie 
          
 
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           | Posted: 05 December 2021 at 1:56pm | IP Logged
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I got the installation. I want to use a local hard drive for storage and let my users see the files already on this drive. This is a windows 10 machine running wampserver php 7.3.21 and apache 2.4.46. I was running another file sharing app that I was not thrilled with.
 I need simple instructions for a simple person such as me!
 Thanks in advance.
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         Igor AfterLogic Support 
          
 
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           | Posted: 05 December 2021 at 10:33pm | IP Logged
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Hello,
 
 
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 That's not supported, you need to upload the files into the user account to make them accessible to other users.
 
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         mikewilder Newbie 
          
 
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           | Posted: 06 December 2021 at 5:05pm | IP Logged
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But my OS drive (where the wampserver and aurora live) is small, all of my content is on an external drive that has lots of room. Should I just run aurora from that drive?
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         Igor AfterLogic Support 
          
 
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           | Posted: 06 December 2021 at 11:52pm | IP Logged
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Aurora Files stores all the files under data directory and you can move it to another filesystem location, just need to create inc_settings_path.php file in root directory of Aurora Files installation, with the following content:
 
 
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 where $dataPath value contains filesystem path of data directory location, it can point to another drive too, e.g.:
 
 
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 See Protecting data directory page for more info.
 
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