Alias files

I need to alias a number of folders to files. I tried to do this:
Alias /germany/berlin /cgi-bin/dddd.sh/show.pl?id=ber
Alias /germany /cgi-bin/dddd.sh/show.pl?id=de

And so on but it didn't work. Syntax check was OK but it just didnt work. Is it possible to do something like that at all?

I also tried Redirect instead but got other problems:
Redirect /germany/berlin http://www.ourhost.com:8080/cgi-bin/dddd.sh/show.pl?id=ber
Redirect /germany http://www.ourhost.com:8080/cgi-bin/dddd.sh/show.pl?id=de

It just stripped of the 8080 port directive which is very much needed.

Any ideas or inputs on this. Do I need to get into mod_rewrite?

Best regards Jens

 

Hello jens,

You have to enable mod_rewrite module in apache and add the rule shown as below in your htaccess file.

==========
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /<your folder>/

#redirect everything else to index.php
RewriteRule !^/*(__|index\.php) index.php%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
===========

Do let me know if you have further issues.

 

Thanks,

but wont that cause a lot of other things to be rewritten? I will have several other files in the root folder apart from those I tried to create as aliases.

For instance I want to alias (or rewrite or redirect or whatever) folders like
/germany
/netherlands
/great+britain
etc
and in those folders I will have several sub-folders (berlin, amsterdam, london, dublin etc).

But I will also have other files in the root folder :
/faq.shtml
/insurances.shtml
etc
I wouldnt want to block access to those.



/Jens