Apache - Problems with alias of mounted FAT partition

[beatlestones]

Main bits in bold : )

Hi there,

I'm setting up a Fedora 10 home file server. As part of this I've set up an SSL-enabled website on apache so that I can access a selection of my files from work - I know I could just use SSH - but its easier for the rest of the family to be able to use a simple web-interface.

Anyways I've got this in my httpd.conf...

Alias /data "/media/"

<Directory "/media/">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride None
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

...within media there is a directory called "data".

If I navigate to https://[mysite]/data without anything mounted I get a directory view showing a link for the 'data' directory (i.e. pointing to /media/data in real-terms).

The problem occurs when I mount my FAT partition into place (in fstab I'm using)
/dev/sda5 /media/data vfat rw,users 1 2
Although I've also tried
/dev/sda5 /media/data vfat defaults 0 0

As soon as the partition is mounted I can no longer see 'data' in the directory view (its as if it disappears as far as Apache is concerned) and I can't access any folders/files within the mounted partition, even though via SSH everything is fine and readable/writeable.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[beatlestones]

One and only bump attempt just incase my OP was ambiguous...

To re-word it...

I've aliased the directory /media/ on my machine...

When I mount my FAT part. into /media/data/ I can't see any of the mounted stuff from a web browser... including the ../data/ directory I'm mounting to...

If I update httpd.conf to Alias /myalias "/media/data/" (i.e. so the alias is directly to the directory where the mount is, I get 403 forbidden errors when going to http://mydomain.com/myalias

Any ideas - surely someone else has an alias to a mounted folder?