Hi list

How do i make an alias on my webserver?

i have images on my machine located in /home/me/images/. i would like to be able to access them on /home/httpd/htdocs/

i have tried this:
Alias /home/me/images/ "/home/httpd/htdocs/cctvimages/"
Alias /cctvimages/ /home/me/images/

the first just displays parent directory (go back), the seocnd shows an error: Forbidden: you dont have permission to access/cctvimages/

i have mkdir cctvimages in /home/http/htdocs/cctvimages

Regards,
Mel

There is a section in httpd.conf that specifically deals with this. It looks like this:

#
# Aliases: Add here as many aliases as you need (with no limit). The format is
# Alias fakename realname
#
# Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will
# require it to be present in the URL. So "/icons" isn't aliased in this
# example, only "/icons/". If the fakename is slash-terminated, then the
# realname must also be slash terminated, and if the fakename omits the
# trailing slash, the realname must also omit it.
#
# We include the /icons/ alias for FancyIndexed directory listings. If you
# do not use FancyIndexing, you may comment this out.
#
Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"

#
# This should be changed to the ServerRoot/manual/. The alias provides
# the manual, even if you choose to move your DocumentRoot. You may comment
# this out if you do not care for the documentation.
#
Alias /manual "/var/www/manual"

thanks. I have done this,

# This Alias is to allow for the cctvimages to be displayed on the site.
#

Alias /cctvimages/ "/home/me/images/"

<Directory "/home/me/images">
Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Check your permissions on this directory.

how? please help me out?

http://134.36.16.12/cctvimages/

Do this:

chmod 755 /home/me/images

still the same error:

[root@cctv /]# chmod 755 /home/me/images/
[root@cctv /]#

I said:

You did:

sorry i did both.

[root@cctv /]# su
[root@cctv /]# chmod 755 /home/me/images
[root@cctv /]# chmod 755 /home/me/images/
[root@cctv /]#

Do you have any files in that directory? Unless you have an index.html or index.htm you can't just go to directory. You must specify a file.

What files do you have in that directory?

nothing, this is why i am trying to make an Alias.

i have images in /home/me/images.

so when i try to get this, i get the same error:

http://cctv.dundee.ac.uk/cctvimages/...3_12_05_20.jpg

Each directory has to have read and enter permissions for people in order for them to be able to access the pictures. You probably have to change the permissions on the /me directory as well:

chmod 755 /home/me

beautiful, thanks alot.

it is working. thanks.

thanks,

another question if i may, is there away to display a thumbnail picture?

Regards,
Mel