-----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of "Crash" Dummy Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:52 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Alias versus Symbolic Links The Apache documentation says, "There are frequently circumstances where it is necessary to allow web access to parts of the filesystem that are not strictly underneath the DocumentRoot. Apache offers several different ways to accomplish this. On Unix systems, symbolic links can bring other parts of the filesystem under the DocumentRoot. For security reasons, Apache will follow symbolic links only if the Options setting for the relevant directory includes FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch." "Alternatively, the Alias directive will map any part of the filesystem into the web space..." My question is, What the hell is a symbolic link? I have Apache installed on Windows 2000, and use aliases to map stuff to the DocumentRoot. Are "symbolic links" a purely *nix thing? Can I just ignore them and their related directives (like FollowSymLInks)? yes. lh.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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