title: Mac OS X - How to store web projects in a location other than /Library
body: <p>Google turns up nothing but very basic set up of web servers on the Mac. I've got that.</p>
  
  <p>I build web projects locally on a Mac using PHP/MySQL. I store the sites in /Library/WebServer/Documents then access them via browsers with <a href="http://localhost" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://localhost</a>.</p>
  
  <p>This works fine. </p>
  
  <p>What I would like to do is to be able to place symlinks or aliases of projects into the /WebServer/Documents folder and access sites on other (local) drives. I don't want to have to store everything in the Library folder. However, it seems that symlinks don't work. The only way a project functions is if all it's files are located in the /Library folder - no symlinks.</p>
  
  <p>I realize I can change the root path for the web server in the http.conf file but I don't want to actually change the server path, I merely want to use symlinks if possible. I also realize I could use something like MAMP, but things run fine with my traditional set up (and I prefer to avoid MAMP since it's not always real-world). Main motivation here is that I don't want to store files on the boot volume, where there Library folder is located.</p>
  
  <p>Can I use symlinks for directories with Mac OS10.6.8/Apache? if so how, please?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>