×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS

Contact US

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you a
Computer / IT professional?
Join Tek-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!

*Tek-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Directory Alias

How do I access a directory outside of my document root? by Wullie
Posted: 3 May 02 (Edited 15 Sep 03)

This explain how to give users access to a directory that is outside of your directory root on Windows.

Assuming that your directory is located at C:/www/newfolder/ then you would create the following in your httpd.conf file.

Alias /newfolder/ "C:/www/newfolder/"

<Directory "C:/www/newfolder">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride AuthConfig
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Now, when a user goes to www.domain.com/newfolder/ then they see the folder that is outside your document root and it appears in the browser to be a directory contained below the document root..

One thing to consider is that if you have virtualhosts, then an alias works for every virtualhost, so try to use uncommon names for your alias.

Hope this helps

Wullie

sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk
www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

Back to Linux (server) FAQ Index
Back to Linux (server) Forum

My Archive

Close Box

Join Tek-Tips® Today!

Join your peers on the Internet's largest technical computer professional community.
It's easy to join and it's free.

Here's Why Members Love Tek-Tips Forums:

Register now while it's still free!

Already a member? Close this window and log in.

Join Us             Close