[users@httpd] Having problem getting Alias's to work....

[fschnittke@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi:

I'm new to apache and I am having some
real troubles getting an alias to work. I'm using apache 1.3.29 on OpenBSD
3.8

I can get an alias to work if it's
in the /var/www/ directory but I can't alias to anything elsewhere on the
file system. I've chmod'd this and chgrp'd that but no luck.

Here is what I'm trying to do: I have
a folder called "fred" in the root of the file system. Inside
that folder is a file called index.html. This is what I'm trying to access.

In my httpd.conf:

Alias /fred "/fred/"
<Directory "/fred">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

From a browser I can access the default
apache page in /var/www/htdocs by pointing the browser to http://ServerName
no problem.

If I try the following:

        http://ServerName/fred
   or...
        http://ServerName/fred/
  or...
        http://ServerName/fred/index.html

I get (respectively):

        The
Webpage Cannot Be Found - 404 message in browser
        File
does not exist: /fred/ - in error_log

        The
Webpage Cannot Be Found - 404 message in browser
        File
does not exist: /fred// - in error_log

        Forbidden
- You don't have permission to access /fred/index.html on this server.
- in browser
        (2)No
such file or directory: cannot read directory for multi: /fred//

My file permissions on the directory
are as follows:
        drwxr-xr-x
  2 root    daemon      512 Nov  3 10:44
fred/

My file permissions within the directory
are as follows:
        drwxr-xr-x
  2 root  daemon   512 Nov  3 10:44 ./
        drwxr-xr-x
 19 root  wheel    512 Nov  3 10:43 ../
        -r--r--r--
  1 root  bin     3491 Nov  3 10:44 index.html

I've been playing around with various
scenarios and configurations for days, but I can't get it figured out.
Any help would be appreciated...


Thanks 



Fred