Directory Aliasing

Aliasing Overview

Directory aliases can be useful in several situations.  They can provide access to documents that are not under the virutal root directory of the server.  It also provides a way to change the physical name or location of a directory, without having to change your html files to reflect the new location.

If BRS WebWeaver were installed in C:\WebWeaver and had the virtual root set to C:\WebWeaver\Docs, the a request for http://<your machine>/images/back1.jpg, would by default server the back1.jpg image from C:\WebWeaver\Docs\images\.  If your were to setup an alias as:

[Alias]        [Directory]
/images/      D:\MyImages\

Now when the identical request of http://<your machine>/images/back1.jpg is served, it would server back1.jpg from D:\MyImages\ rather than C:\WebWeaver\Docs\images\.

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