Apache and aliases

nuzzy · 08-05-2003, 11:26 AM

First off, let me apologize if this is located on this board already. I couldn't find it. What I'm trying to do is have my Squirrelmail login.php come up when I type:

http://www.mydomain.com/squirrelmail

Right now I have to do this:

http://www.mydomain.com/squirrelmail/src/login.php

Can someone explain how to create this alias/shortcut so I can do the above?

sopiaz57 · 08-05-2003, 01:13 PM

you can use an apache redirect directive. it goes something like this:

Redirect old-URI new-URL

so in your case try: /squirrelmail/src/login.php http://www.mydomain.com/squirrelmail

let me know if this works.

ttyl

sopiaz57 · 08-05-2003, 01:21 PM

i dont know about the differences but the Alias directive works in the same way. you would do .

Alias /squirrelmail/src/login.php /squirrelmail

good luck, use this for some good refrence

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/

nuzzy · 08-05-2003, 01:44 PM

Hi,

It just brins up the directory index or /squirrelmail/src and the login.php isn't showing up in there

sopiaz57 · 08-05-2003, 01:46 PM

ok so the redirect or alias is working, your server just dosent recognize php files...

do a search for that login.php file, thats the one you want to load on default. try locate login.php.

nuzzy · 08-05-2003, 01:48 PM

It's there, under /squirrelmail/src...it's hidden when I go to the URL though...

nuzzy · 08-05-2003, 02:07 PM

let me give some more info...it may be a config problem:

Squirrelmail directory:

/var/www/htdocs/squirrelmail

Squirrelmail login .php location:

/var/www/htdocs/squirrelmail/src/login.php

This is on slack 9 and I installed both the apache2 and apache-php slack packages and then added squirrelmail, so I don't have any virtualservers set up other than the default server.