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<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_alias</h1>
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<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Provides for mapping different parts of the host
filesystem in the document tree and for URL redirection</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module�Identifier:</a></th><td>alias_module</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile">Source�File:</a></th><td>mod_alias.c</td></tr></table>
<h3>Summary</h3>
<p>The directives contained in this module allow for manipulation
and control of URLs as requests arrive at the server. The
<code class="directive"><a href="#alias">Alias</a></code> and <code class="directive"><a href="#scriptalias">ScriptAlias</a></code> directives are used to
map between URLs and filesystem paths. This allows for content
which is not directly under the <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> served as part of the web
document tree. The <code class="directive"><a href="#scriptalias">ScriptAlias</a></code> directive has the
additional effect of marking the target directory as containing
only CGI scripts.</p>
<p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#redirect">Redirect</a></code>
directives are used to instruct clients to make a new request with
a different URL. They are often used when a resource has moved to
a new location.</p>
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<div id="quickview"><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
<ul id="toc">
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#alias">Alias</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#aliasmatch">AliasMatch</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#redirect">Redirect</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#redirectmatch">RedirectMatch</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#redirectpermanent">RedirectPermanent</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#redirecttemp">RedirectTemp</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#scriptalias">ScriptAlias</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#scriptaliasmatch">ScriptAliasMatch</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>See also</h3>
<ul class="seealso">
<li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code></li>
<li><a href="/urlmapping.html">Mapping URLs to the filesystem</a></li>
</ul></div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="Alias" id="Alias">Alias</a> <a name="alias" id="alias">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Maps URLs to filesystem locations</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>Alias <var>URL-path</var>
<var>file-path</var>|<var>directory-path</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_alias</td></tr>
</table>
<p>The <code class="directive">Alias</code> directive allows documents to
be stored in the local filesystem other than under the
<code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code>. URLs with a
(%-decoded) path beginning with <var>url-path</var> will be mapped
to local files beginning with <var>directory-path</var>.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Example:</h3><p><code>
Alias /image /ftp/pub/image
</code></p></div>
<p>A request for http://myserver/image/foo.gif would cause the
server to return the file /ftp/pub/image/foo.gif.</p>
<p>Note that if you include a trailing / on the
<var>url-path</var> then the server will require a trailing / in
order to expand the alias. That is, if you use <code>Alias
/icons/ /usr/local/apache/icons/</code> then the url
<code>/icons</code> will not be aliased.</p>
<p>Note that you may need to specify additional <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#directory">&lt;Directory&gt;</a></code> sections which
cover the <em>destination</em> of aliases. Aliasing occurs before
<code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#directory">&lt;Directory&gt;</a></code> sections
are checked, so only the destination of aliases are affected.
(Note however <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#location">&lt;Location&gt;</a></code>
sections are run through once before aliases are performed, so
they will apply.)</p>
<p>In particular, if you are creating an <code>Alias</code> to a
directory outside of your <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code>, you may need to explicitly
permit access to the target directory.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Example:</h3><p><code>
Alias /image /ftp/pub/image<br />
&lt;Directory /ftp/pub/image&gt;<br />
<span class="indent">
Order allow,deny<br />
Allow from all<br />
</span>
&lt;/Directory&gt;
</code></p></div>
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AliasMatch" id="AliasMatch">AliasMatch</a> <a name="aliasmatch" id="aliasmatch">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Maps URLs to filesystem locations using regular
expressions</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AliasMatch <var>regex</var>
<var>file-path</var>|<var>directory-path</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_alias</td></tr>
</table>
<p>This directive is equivalent to <code class="directive"><a href="#alias">Alias</a></code>, but makes use of standard
regular expressions, instead of simple prefix matching. The
supplied regular expression is matched against the URL-path, and
if it matches, the server will substitute any parenthesized
matches into the given string and use it as a filename. For
example, to activate the <code>/icons</code> directory, one might
use:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
AliasMatch ^/icons(.*) /usr/local/apache/icons$1
</code></p></div>
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="Redirect" id="Redirect">Redirect</a> <a name="redirect" id="redirect">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Sends an external redirect asking the client to fetch
a different URL</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>Redirect [<var>status</var>] <var>URL-path</var>
<var>URL</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_alias</td></tr>
</table>
<p>The Redirect directive maps an old URL into a new one. The
new URL is returned to the client which attempts to fetch it
again with the new address. <var>URL-path</var> a (%-decoded)
path; any requests for documents beginning with this path will
be returned a redirect error to a new (%-encoded) URL beginning
with <var>URL</var>.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Example:</h3><p><code>
Redirect /service http://foo2.bar.com/service
</code></p></div>
<p>If the client requests http://myserver/service/foo.txt, it
will be told to access http://foo2.bar.com/service/foo.txt
instead.</p>
<div class="note"><h3>Note</h3> <p>Redirect directives take precedence over
Alias and ScriptAlias directives, irrespective of their ordering in
the configuration file. Also, <var>URL-path</var> must be an absolute
path, not a relative path, even when used with .htaccess files or
inside of <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#directory">&lt;Directory&gt;</a></code>
sections.</p></div>
<p>If no <var>status</var> argument is given, the redirect will
be "temporary" (HTTP status 302). This indicates to the client
that the resource has moved temporarily. The <var>status</var>
argument can be used to return other HTTP status codes:</p>
<dl>
<dt>permanent</dt>
<dd>Returns a permanent redirect status (301) indicating that
the resource has moved permanently.</dd>
<dt>temp</dt>
<dd>Returns a temporary redirect status (302). This is the
default.</dd>
<dt>seeother</dt>
<dd>Returns a "See Other" status (303) indicating that the
resource has been replaced.</dd>
<dt>gone</dt>
<dd>Returns a "Gone" status (410) indicating that the
resource has been permanently removed. When this status is
used the <var>URL</var> argument should be omitted.</dd>
</dl>
<p>Other status codes can be returned by giving the numeric
status code as the value of <var>status</var>. If the status is
between 300 and 399, the <var>URL</var> argument must be present,
otherwise it must be omitted. Note that the status must be
known to the Apache code (see the function
<code>send_error_response</code> in http_protocol.c).</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Example:</h3><p><code>
Redirect permanent /one http://example.com/two<br />
Redirect 303 /three http://example.com/other
</code></p></div>
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="RedirectMatch" id="RedirectMatch">RedirectMatch</a> <a name="redirectmatch" id="redirectmatch">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Sends an external redirect based on a regular expression match
of the current URL</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>RedirectMatch [<var>status</var>] <var>regex</var>
<var>URL</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_alias</td></tr>
</table>
<p>This directive is equivalent to <code class="directive"><a href="#redirect">Redirect</a></code>, but makes use of standard
regular expressions, instead of simple prefix matching. The
supplied regular expression is matched against the URL-path, and
if it matches, the server will substitute any parenthesized
matches into the given string and use it as a filename. For
example, to redirect all GIF files to like-named JPEG files on
another server, one might use:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
RedirectMatch (.*)\.gif$ http://www.anotherserver.com$1.jpg
</code></p></div>
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="RedirectPermanent" id="RedirectPermanent">RedirectPermanent</a> <a name="redirectpermanent" id="redirectpermanent">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Sends an external permanent redirect asking the client to fetch
a different URL</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>RedirectPermanent <var>URL-path</var> <var>URL</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_alias</td></tr>
</table>
<p>This directive makes the client know that the Redirect is
permanent (status 301). Exactly equivalent to <code>Redirect
permanent</code>.</p>
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="RedirectTemp" id="RedirectTemp">RedirectTemp</a> <a name="redirecttemp" id="redirecttemp">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Sends an external temporary redirect asking the client to fetch
a different URL</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>RedirectTemp <var>URL-path</var> <var>URL</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_alias</td></tr>
</table>
<p>This directive makes the client know that the Redirect is
only temporary (status 302). Exactly equivalent to
<code>Redirect temp</code>.</p>
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="ScriptAlias" id="ScriptAlias">ScriptAlias</a> <a name="scriptalias" id="scriptalias">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Maps a URL to a filesystem location and designates the
target as a CGI script</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ScriptAlias <var>URL-path</var>
<var>file-path</var>|<var>directory-path</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_alias</td></tr>
</table>
<p>The <code class="directive">ScriptAlias</code> directive has the same
behavior as the <code class="directive"><a href="#alias">Alias</a></code>
directive, except that in addition it marks the target directory
as containing CGI scripts that will be processed by <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code>'s cgi-script handler. URLs with a
(%-decoded) path beginning with <var>URL-path</var> will be mapped
to scripts beginning with the second argument which is a full
pathname in the local filesystem.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Example:</h3><p><code>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /web/cgi-bin/
</code></p></div>
<p>A request for <code>http://myserver/cgi-bin/foo</code> would cause the
server to run the script <code>/web/cgi-bin/foo</code>.</p>
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="ScriptAliasMatch" id="ScriptAliasMatch">ScriptAliasMatch</a> <a name="scriptaliasmatch" id="scriptaliasmatch">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Maps a URL to a filesystem location using a regular expression
and designates the target as a CGI script</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ScriptAliasMatch <var>regex</var>
<var>file-path</var>|<var>directory-path</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_alias</td></tr>
</table>
<p>This directive is equivalent to <code class="directive"><a href="#scriptalias">ScriptAlias</a></code>, but makes use of standard
regular expressions, instead of simple prefix matching. The
supplied regular expression is matched against the URL-path,
and if it matches, the server will substitute any parenthesized
matches into the given string and use it as a filename. For
example, to activate the standard <code>/cgi-bin</code>, one
might use:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin(.*) /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin$1
</code></p></div>
</div>
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