Complete newbie question about aliases - SOLVED!

[someguy]

I'll try to keep my questions to a minimum but I'm really lost here...

I want to define:

c:/localhost/htdocs/private/website

as being the root for my website so from my pages I can refer to '/' instead of using the physical address.

I know this must be extemely simple but I can't figure it out.

EDIT: Naturally, 10 minutes later I figured out that it was a vhost that I wanted but my vhost declaration had a space in the directory name. I encased the path in single quotes and fixed my problem.