Settings for NTFS partition

First you need to be able to access your NTFS partition via Ubuntu. Do the following steps if you haven't.

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

Find the name of your NTFS partition(s). Example:

sudo fdisk -l | grep NTFS

Get the UUID of your NTFS partition.

$ sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: LABEL="windows" UUID="4ED2A451B2A23F59" TYPE="ntfs"

Configure the partition in /etc/fstab (make a backup just in case).

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak

sudo vim /etc/fstab

I created mine as follows (based on the UUID. The following options set read, write, execute permissions and uid=1000 sets you as the user of the NTFS partition during OS boot. This will also ensure that Apache user can access your virtual host direction (this is what solved my problem).

/dev/disk/by-uuid/4ED2A451B2A23F59 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,permissions,users,uid=1000,utf8  0 0

If you want to mount the partition as the www-data user instead, then find the www-data user id and replace uid=1000 with that:

id -u www-data

Note that you may need to create /media/windows directory if it doesn't exist.

cd /media

sudo mkdir windows

sudo chown sagun:users windows

Reboot your computer and confirm that your NTFS drive automounts with read, write, execute permissions enabled.

Settings for configuring Virtual Host in Apache

Create directories to place your log files (if you want):

sudo mkdir /var/log/apache2/projects.dev

Create a new config file inside /etc/apache2/sites-available directory. Example:

sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/projects.dev.conf

Set your configuration similar to this and save the file:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin [email protected]

    ServerName projects.dev

    ServerAlias projects

    DocumentRoot /media/windows/Users/sagun/Dropbox/projects

    <Directory />

        Options FollowSymLinks

        AuthType None

        AllowOverride None

        Order deny,allow

        Deny from all

    </Directory>

    <Directory /media/windows/Users/sagun/Dropbox/projects/>

        Require all granted

        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

        AuthType None

        AllowOverride None

        Order allow,deny

        allow from all

    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/projects.dev/error.log

    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/projects.dev/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Next, edit the /etc/hosts file.

sudo vim /etc/hosts

Add the following line and save:

127.0.0.1   projects.dev

Activate the host with the following command:

sudo a2ensite projects.dev

Restart Apache

sudo service apache2 restart

Finally I was able to go to http://projects.dev from my Browser with all my code residing in NTFS partition from both Windows and Ubuntu. I hope someone finds this useful. Cheers!