Hi. I'm trying to work out how to do the following;

Let users goto http://www.mysite.com/folder/, but instead be redirected to http://www.mysited.com/link/to/sub/folder/

I thought I could get away with linking a folder, via;

ln -s folder link/to/sub/folder

But that didnt work :(

Is there anything I can do in .htaccess, or similar to achive this?

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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You can setup Aliases in your httpd.conf file. I'm not sure if you can do this in your .htaccess files, however. Set something like:

Alias /folder/ "/home/real/location/of/folder/"

Remember that the trailing slash will be required. If the user goes to /folder then the symlink will not work.

- wil

Hello,

You could put a index page in the folder you want redirected using the meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.mysite.com/link/to/sub/folder">

I have done this and it seems to work fine just leave the page blank

If you need to more detail about this email me: chrishuey@hueyhost.com
Chris Huey
Car-pons.com
http://www.car-pons.com

Yeah, but I need everything within that folder to be redirected accordingly, not just the index file.

Thanks anyway

Andy (mod)
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http://httpd.apache.org/...as.html#redirectperm

Scroll upwards for more useful ideas too.

I think Andy can also put

FollowSymLinks

into his options of httpd.conf

http://hotwired.lycos.com/...age3.html?tw=backend

It's a security issue of course, which is why it's often not set.