Name
Alias
Synopsis
Alias url_path directory_or_filename
Server config, virtual host
Alias
is used to map a resource’s
URL to its physical location in the filesystem, regardless of where
it is relative to the document root. For instance, see
.../site.alias/conf/httpd.conf:
... Alias /somewhere_else/ /usr/www/APACHE3/somewhere_else/ ...
There is a directory /usr/www/APACHE3/somewhere_else/, which contains a file lost.txt. If we navigate to www.butterthlies.com/somewhere_else, we see:
Index of /somewhere_else Parent Directory lost.txt
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