How do I web share a directory with an aliase ?

dublin123456 · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 2

[post=][/post]Hi,

I'm totally new to linux and do not know the following ?

How do I web share a directory with an aliase ?

Thanks you.

lopez · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:23 pm Post subject:

Can you be more specific? Do you want to setup and Alias in Apache?

Thanks

dublin123456 · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 2

Hi,

Not sure, apache is installed and also konqueror 3.3 (using KDE 3.3.0) ? I bacasically need a directory structure of the following :

c:\linuxcontentbox\testarea\web

I need to webshare "web" with "testarea" as the aliase on the "web" directory.
On a windows webserver, it's just a matter of a right click on the required directory - web sharing etc etc.

Thanks.

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:42 pm Post subject:

Hi.

You want to use an alias directive in apache. However, you certainly don't want to use c:\linuxcontentbox\testarea\web as the dir, since that doesn't exist in Linux. :wink:

In your apache config file, /etc/apache2/httpd.conf ?, set the following