[Gllug] Problems with mod_alias and Apache

[william pink]

Apologies in the end it turned out to be Wordpress! Live and learn eh?

Thanks for the help all

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:43 PM, william pink <will.pink at gmail.com> wrote:

> It appears the Alias isn't working, the module mod_alias is enabled though.
>
> I changed it to /test and this appeared in my Apache log file
>
> File does not exist: /var/www/example/test
>
> so it narrows it down but I then haven't got a clue what could be
> causing mod_alias not to work.
>
> Thanks guys,
>
> Will
>
>
>
>
> On 8/28/08, Progga <proggaprogga at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:03:59PM +0100, william pink wrote:
> >>
> >> File does not exist: /var/www/foo/example
> >>
> >> But of course I want it to point at /var/www/example
> >>
> >> Heres my VH config for that part now
> >>
> >>     Alias /example/ /var/www/example
> >>      <Directory /var/www/example>
> >>        Order allow,deny
> >>        Allow from all
> >>       </Directory>
> >>
> >> But looking at the Apache docs that appears to be the right way of doing
> >> it?
> >
> > Here's an example from the Apache doc
> > (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html) :
> >
> >     Alias /image /ftp/pub/image
> >     <Directory /ftp/pub/image>
> >         Order allow,deny
> >         Allow from all
> >     </Directory>
> >
> > It also says:
> >     Note that if you include a trailing / on the url-path then the server
> > will
> >     require a trailing / in order to expand the alias. That is, if you
> use
> >
> >         Alias /icons/ /usr/local/apache/icons/
> >
> >     then the url /icons will not be aliased.
> >
> >
> > At least the following from your httpd.conf should work:
> >
> >> >>     Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
> >> >>     <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
> >> >>         Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
> >> >>         AllowOverride None
> >> >>         Order deny,allow
> >> >>         Deny from all
> >> >>         Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
> >> >>     </Directory>
> >
> >
> > HTH
> >
> >
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