Alias which works like in other web servers

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:11:57AM +0100, marc at corky.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Apache:  Alias /blog "/var/www/wordpress"
> 
> lighttpd: alias.url = ( "/blog" => "/var/www/wordpress" )
> 
> Both work pretty much the same way, no special handling of fastcgi or 
> other rules are needed.
> 
> The "document root" effectively becomes that of the alias destination 
> directory on such requests.

nginx does the same for static requests:

   location /blog  {
       alias   /var/www/wordpress;
   }

What fastcgi configuration will be in Apache and lighty ?

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:41:50AM +0100, marc at corky.net wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>Would it not be wise to create a type of alias that most people are 
> >>comfortable with (and think is logical, due to their previous experience 
> >>with other web servers) ?
> >>
> >>It seems that such an alias would simplify configurations of this type, 
> >>which to me look pretty common and useful.
> >>    
> >
> >Well, how you will configure this in Apache or lighty ?
> >
> >  
> 
> 

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