alias issue, getting 404's

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alias issue, getting 404's

Postby gesangbaer » 24. September 2008 07:22

I've just installed xampp on xp sp2 and I've got the main directory serving files, but I can't get alias's to work. Here is the alias in question.

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    Alias "/admin" "C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs"
   <Directory "C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs">
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
       AllowOverride All
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
   </Directory>


I know this is the default xampp directory for the apache files. I changed that to a different directory and it's working fine.

One thing I noticed, when I try "http://url/admin" the 404 page is located at "http://url/xampp".

I also tried

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    Alias "/admin/" "C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs/"
   <Directory "C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs">
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
       AllowOverride All
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
   </Directory>


The only difference was that the 404 page url was "http://url/admin".

I can't figure out why this alias doesn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Postby gesangbaer » 25. September 2008 03:52

Nobody has any ideas on this?

Is there any other information I can provide that might help?
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Postby Wiedmann » 25. September 2008 08:06

and I've got the main directory serving files,

You have changed the DocumentRoot?
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Postby gesangbaer » 26. September 2008 03:11

Yes. I changed the DocumentRoot to xampp/web. The files in that folder are serving up as http://url/ which is great.

I tried to use the original directory as an alias directory so I could still get at the admin files. Sadly the alias is not working.
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Postby Wiedmann » 26. September 2008 08:33

so I could still get at the admin files.

The "admin files" are only a demo website and not really for administration. So it's also safe to just delete these files.

I changed the DocumentRoot to xampp/web.

This demo website is not desinged to work from an alias (especially the status page).

Making a VHost is a better solution.
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Postby gesangbaer » 27. September 2008 03:22

Okay, but the alias should still work yes? Even if the pages aren't any good. Those pages would show to an outside browser before so they should be able to show up under an alias. Should we just ditch alias's and always use a virtual host?

Ignoring the fact that I shouldn't keep these pages, what can I do to make it work?
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Postby Wiedmann » 27. September 2008 09:54

but the alias should still work yes?

No:
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Alias "/admin" "C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs"

In the file "http://localhost/admin/index.php" is a redirect to "http://localhost/xampp/". But this location doesn't exists in your configuration.

Should we just ditch alias's and always use a virtual host?

You can try to make an alias like:
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Alias /admin "C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs/xampp/"

(In this case the redirect in htdocs does not take effect)

But an VHost is the best solution.
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Postby gesangbaer » 27. September 2008 20:44

Oh! Thanks! I didn't notice that redirect when the files were still up. So the alias was working and it was an invalid redirect that was causing the issue?

Thanks again.
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Postby Wiedmann » 28. September 2008 10:26

So the alias was working and it was an invalid redirect that was causing the issue?

Correct.
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