Hello everyone! Tarballed is back with an apache question.

I am trying to add a quick alias to apache. However, I am very new to apache. I have been reading my documentation though, so I have been trying. But, my boss wants this apache box up and running quickly so I need to get this done asap.

It's a real simple task that I am trying to do, I just cant figure it out yet.

Here is what I am doing. I have apache 1.3.7 installed with squirrelmail. The server is on our internal network with no access from the outside world at this time. (In the future though)
The server has a private IP.

Right now, to access squirrelmail from within the intranet, you have to type:

http://192.x.x.x/squirrelmail_1.2.10

What I want to do is just set it up so I can type in:

http://192.x.x.x/sms

I know I can do that in the httpd.conf file, but I am a little unsure.

If anyone has some input for me, i'd love to hear it.
Also, any great links for configuring apache would be great. I will be using apache a lot here in the future.

Thanks much.

The Tarballed

Well, in all honesty, if you installed a standard squirrelmail package, all you have to do is rename the directory.

mv squirrelmail_1.2.10 mail
Would do it from a command prompt, if you are in the proper directory.



You could also set it up in your httpd.conf in the following manner:
(This is based on my personal server, so substitute where necessary.)



<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1>
Servername athas.wolven.com
ServerAlias darksun.wolven.com
DocumentRoot /home/athas/public_html
ServerPath /home/athas/public_html
</VirtualHost>


Do you see how I added the alias?

ServerAlias

Presuming your DNS is setup correctly, you could actually have


mail.hostname.com

instead of

http://192.168.0.1/squirrelmail_1.2.10



If all of this has been either too confusing, or too much information, or too little, say so, and I'll try to be more direct.

Simple answer, though, is to follow the directions up top, and rename the directory.

Wolven. Thanks for your input. I really do appreciate.

I am learning apache as we write, so I am trying to absorb as much as I can. Also, we currently do not have any DNS servers set up on our intranet (Thats my next task) so I am trying to get around a way to just have a few people on our LAN access the squirrelmail in a easier way. We are testing it out right now.

Once we have this all setup correctly, I am going to setup some DNS servers and make the zones accordingly.

In the meantime, I am going to try your suggestions.

Do I need to create any DNS records to attemp what I am trying? Or can I just make a few alias setups in the http.conf file?

Thanks.

Tarballed

What you actually SAID you wanted requires nothing more than a name change of the directory.

No aliases, nothing silly like that. Squirrelmail works from a starting point of whatever directory it finds itself in.


To do what I was suggesting would be more involved, or you could edit a whole lot of /etc/hosts files. (I.E. EVERYONE'S.)