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I can't find any good, active Apache forums, anyone know? Either way I'll ask once here.

Let's say all webpages on the server run from /var/www directory and you would like to store some webpages elsewhere on the filesystem and still the apache webserver can access them like they were located in /var/www. What's the way to do this? Hard links, symbolic links, httpd config, ?

Using aliases?

From httpd.conf:

Code:

    # Alias: Maps web paths into filesystem paths and is used to
    # access content that does not live under the DocumentRoot.
    # Example:
    # Alias /webpath /full/filesystem/path

Ah, that looks like another way to do it.

So the way I figure there's several ways to do this:
1) the one you mentioned
2) symbolic links
3) virtual hosting?
4) changing DocumentRoot

I'd imagine 4th might be frownable. Not sure if virtual hosting is advisable either, would it?

Use virtualhosts and in the <Directory> section put in any directory on any server, any place. It's all magic but Apache will work it all out. Virtualhosts will require a new entry in the name server of course.

Bill

So if I plan to stick with the same server name, then I should probably not use virtual hosts? Sorry I'm a newbie to this stuff.

Some changes to apache really cracked down on this method a few years ago, it got a lot more anal about the permissions of where the symlink goes, which broke a lot of working configurations. Probably better to avoid it now if you can.