Alias directive

Purpose

The Alias directive creates a virtual document (or directory) on your server. Any accesses to it will be satisfied by a different file or directory.

Syntax

Alias virtual path

virtual is the translated location of the file/directory.

path is the full pathname of the file or directory which should be used to fulfill the request.

Several Alias directives may appear in the configuration file.

File

srm.conf

Example

Alias /images /ftp/pub/images

This would cause requests for /images to be satisfied from the directory /ftp/pub/images.

Thus, if someone requested /images/foo.gif, the server would return /ftp/pub/images/foo.gif.

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