Question

In my httpd.conf file of my apache server(on windows7), I used LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
And then I modified the httpd.conf with the following:

<IfModule alias_module>
    Alias /b /blog
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ “cgi-bin/”
</IfModule>

After I restarted the server and type the localhost/b in my address bar,however,it did not redirect to the localhost/blog.I don’t konw why.Can you help me, Any help is greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Alias declarations aren’t the same as redirects.

Alias /b /blog

tells Apache to make the files that exist on your file system under the path /blog (which doesn’t mean much on Windows) available at the URL http://myserver.com/b, i.e. a request for http://myserver.com/b/something.html will try to return the content of the file /blog/something.html from your filesystem, failing if that file does not exist – the browser address bar will still say http://myserver.com/b/something.html.

It sounds like what you’re after is

Redirect /b http://myserver.com/blog

In this case, a request for http://myserver.com/b/something.html will result in an HTTP redirect, the browser’s address bar will change to say http://myserver.com/blog/something.html.

Of course, you then need to ensure that /blog resolves appropriately, which may require its own Alias if it’s not under the DocumentRoot.

Alias /blog "C:/web/blog"
<Directory "C:/web/blog">
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>