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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Glad you figured it out; I'm sure you're
right. Not sure where I got the extra / or why it worked on my
server.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=andradupont@gmail.com href="mailto:andradupont@gmail.com">Andra
DuPont</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=timmoody@sympatico.ca
href="mailto:timmoody@sympatico.ca">Tim Moody</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
title=server-devel@lists.laptop.org
href="mailto:server-devel@lists.laptop.org">XS Devel</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:05
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Server-devel] Public
folders</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Tim,
<DIV>Here is an explanation of what happened.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>With your original syntax, Alias will replace "/public/" with
"/library/public" browsing to</DIV>
<DIV>"<A href="http://schoolserver/public'">http://schoolserver/public'</A>
<SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class=Apple-style-span>would
not</SPAN> have invoked the Alias. I would have to type</DIV>
<DIV>"<A href="http://schoolserver/public/">http://schoolserver/public/</A>"
Which <SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
class=Apple-style-span>would</SPAN> invoke the alias and take me to
"/library/public"</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Because I was not invoking the Alias, I was still going to
/var/www/html/public which did</DIV>
<DIV>not exist. Once I created it, I could go there and see the index of the
items I placed in it, but</DIV>
<DIV>I couldn't access them because clicking on a file link <B><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class=Apple-style-span>would</SPAN></B>
invoke the Alias which replaced</DIV>
<DIV>"/public/" with "/public" so I was getting
".../publicfile.pdf" which of course is wrong.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The proper format is:</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Alias /public /library/public</DIV>
<DIV><Directory /library/public ></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>Order allow,deny<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Allow from all<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Options Indexes FollowSymLinks<BR></DIV>
<DIV>AllowOverride None</DIV>
<DIV></Directory></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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