doing alias in .htaccess

nuttynibbles · 08-13-2010, 02:33 AM

hi everyone,

im working on a web project which involves user uploading images. i would like to move the upload directory outside of public_html folder. I understand I can easily do this with Alias in httpd.conf file. But how can I do the same on .htaccess??

Thank you.

bathory · 08-13-2010, 03:06 AM

Hi,

You cannot have an Alias in .htaccess, so I guess that the only way to go is to create a symlink and use .htaccess to enable "Options FollowSymLinks" if not already enabled.

Regards

nuttynibbles · 08-13-2010, 04:35 AM

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Originally Posted by bathory

Hi,

You cannot have an Alias in .htaccess, so I guess that the only way to go is to create a symlink and use .htaccess to enable "Options FollowSymLinks" if not already enabled.

Regards

Hi, Im using a shared hosting and I don't have access to SSH. so I believe there's no way for me to create symLink.

bathory · 08-13-2010, 05:27 AM

If you don't have ssh access how can you create a directory to put uploaded files in?

nuttynibbles · 08-13-2010, 05:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

If you don't have ssh access how can you create a directory to put uploaded files in?

Hi,

I believe FTP access and SSH access are different. Im using FileZilla with an FTP account. This account allows me to create directory. But im certain I cannot login through putty to create directories and symlinks.

bathory · 08-13-2010, 06:10 AM

I mean how can you create a directory outside public_html? Or you have a homedir that is accessible through ftp and public_html is a subdir of it?
Anyway, if only ~/public_html is accessible through a web browser, then the directory in question should reside under public_html as I cannot think of another way for apache to access the filesystem without the Alias directive