RE: Passing multiple IFS directories

Mike,

You don't need the AliasMatch's. Alias is the better choice for what you're 
trying to do (AliasMatch uses regular expressions which adds extra load to your 
server and since you're allowing everything, it's just extra work with no 
benefit). Here's an example that should work:

Alias /documents /DocImage
Alias / /WebPages

<Directory /WebPages/>
   Allow From all
</Directory>
<Directory /DocImage/>
   Allow From all
</Directory>

If you'll notice, the Alias for "documents" is first. This is because the 
server stops searching Alias' after if finds the first one that satisfies the 
request. When you had it the other way around, it was matching on / first.

An alternative to having the second Alias and Directory would be to create a 
symbolic link via the ADDLNK command from WebPages to DocImage. I think you'll 
need to set an option (either server level or in the Directory) to follow 
symbolic links. Take a look at the documentation at http://httpd.apache.org 
(make sure you look at the version 2 docs) for more information on doing this.

Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Skvarenina [mailto:mskvarenina@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:45 AM
To: WEB400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] Passing multiple IFS directories


This one should be a no-brainer for someone out there.

 

I've got 2 folders in my IFS I'm trying to serve via my Apache
implementation.  The first is a folder called WebPages and it contains a
number of sub-folders which all seem to serve just fine.  For example I can
say this in my web page <Img src="/images/photos/3362.JPG"> and the image
file located in WebPages/images/photos is served.

 

Below are the 2 directives I have in my config file for this folder.

 

<Directory /WebPages/>

   Allow From all

</Directory>

 

AliasMatch ^/(.*) /WebPages/$1

 

 

 

 

Now I have a second IFS folder that I'm trying to serve.  On the IFS, it's
actually called DocImage.  Below is what I added to my config file for this
folder.

 

<Directory /DocImage/>

   Allow From all

</Directory>

 

AliasMatch ^/documents/(.*) /DocImage/$1

 

 

My problem is however I cannot seem to reference items in the DocImage
folder.  I'd like to be able to say http://1.2.3.4/documents/document1.pdf
but all I get is a 404 File not found

 

 

Any help would be appreciated.

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