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Asked: 2026-05-31T05:56:12+00:00

Trying to configure apache2 to load example.com/forum/ from a different document root, relative to

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Trying to configure apache2 to load example.com/forum/ from a different document root, relative to the site root. Forums are installed somewhere else on the server.

Is there a directory alias command? I’ve found the alias configuration entry for apache, but had no luck.

Basically, I want example.com to have the same directory its always had, but example.com/forum/ to be hosted somewhere else, on the same server.

I tagged this question with mod_rewrite because I thought maybe it would be the key, here.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Alias is the right way, unless you have some subtlety that you didn’t reveal in your question.

     # http.conf
 Alias /forum /usr/lib/bbs/  # or whatever

    The job of Alias is to take the abstract URL coming into your system and map it to a concrete filesystem path. Once it has done that, the request is no longer an URL but a path. If there is no Alias or similar directive handling that URL, then it will get mapped to a conrete path via DocumentRoot.

    If this isn’t working, you have to debug it further. Are you getting errors when you access /forum? Look in the error log.

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