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Apache, Directory Aliases and Virtual Directories
Posted By : Dan Wilson
October 10, 2006 8:22 PM
I realized I misconfigured Apache the other day. Apache wasn't serving files from my virtual directory, rather from the root folder named the same. After looking at my Apache configuration, I noted I was missing a leading slash in my Alias directive. Sort of hard to spot, so I hope this helps someone else.
This is the misconfigured version: ( Bad )
2<Directory "C:/httpd/Apache2/htdocs/Portal/www">
3 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
4 AllowOverride All
5 Order allow,deny
6 Allow from all
7</Directory>
This is the one that works: ( Good )
2<Directory "C:/httpd/Apache2/htdocs/Portal/www">
3 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
4 AllowOverride All
5 Order allow,deny
6 Allow from all
7</Directory>
Note: The slashes have been changed from \ ( Windows Style ) to / ( Unix Style ). For some reason this mattered.....
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Thanks that helped save me a lot of head scratching.
Guys, Check this out:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.htm...
It seems that it you place a / at the end of the target path, you need it at the end of the alias too (and vice-versa) makes sense really. Oh and back-slashes are escapes whereas forwards are for paths. I have Bill Gates' number somewhere, now where did I put it....
WOAH!, man.
This did the trick for me.
It is amazing how, in the Apache Documentation: not much is said about including the drive the folder is on, in the file path (unless I missed something).
Your example just worked, first time round. Unlike, the other documentation (not to mention other blogs), which tend to be quite vague, in their help articles.
Thanks again.
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On my Apache 2.2 install on Windows I did it like this.
Alias /myfolder "C:/path/to/myfolder/"
<Directory "C:/path/to/myfolder/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
So when I type http://www.mysite.com/myfolder without slash in browser it still loads. If I had "Alias /myfolder/" I am required to type the trailing slash in the browser or I get an error "The requested URL /myfolder was not found on this server.".