title: Setting up a public (or private) symbol server over http
body: <p>Every piece of documentation I've found (references 1 through 5) talks about setting up a symbol server by using a shared UNC path, and then putting the correct settings available to the local debugger instance (whether _NT_SYMBOL_PATH or the Visual Studio IDE Debugging settings).</p>
  
  <p>Microsoft provides a symbol server (reference 6) available via http for their public symbol stores.</p>
  
  <p>I want to create, for my own code, a symbol server accessible over http transport, instead of over UNC file sharing.  The Mozilla folks appear to have done so (reference 7), but it is no longer functional.</p>
  
  <p>Are there better references available for performing this task than I have found so far?</p>
  
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  <p>References</p>
  
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  <li><a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b8ttk8zy(v=vs.80).aspx" rel="noreferrer">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b8ttk8zy(v=vs.80).aspx</a> </li>
  <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680693(v=vs.85).aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680693(v=vs.85).aspx</a> </li>
  <li><a href="http://stackhash.com/blog/post/Setting-up-a-Symbol-Server.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://stackhash.com/blog/post/Setting-up-a-Symbol-Server.aspx</a> </li>
  <li><a href="http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2006/07/06/" rel="noreferrer">http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2006/07/06/</a>… </li>
  <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg462988" rel="noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg462988</a> </li>
  <li><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311503" rel="noreferrer">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311503</a> </li>
  <li><a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_the_Mozilla_symbol_server" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_the_Mozilla_symbol_server</a></li>
  </ol>