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Proxy. SSL. Painting Miniatures How To. Wildwood Survival - Fire from a Can of Coke and a Chocolate Bar. Apache module mod_alias. Apache HTTP Server Version 1.3 You are looking at the documentation for the 1.3 version of the Apache HTTP Server, which is no longer maintained, and has been declared "end of life". If you are in fact still using the 1.3 version, please consider upgrading. The current version of the server is 2.4.

This module provides for mapping different parts of the host filesystem in the document tree, and for URL redirection. Status: Base Source File: mod_alias.c Module Identifier: alias_module Summary The directives contained in this module allow for manipulation and control of URLs as requests arrive at the server. The Redirect directives are used to instruct clients to make a new request with a different URL. A more powerful and flexible set of directives for manipulating URLs is contained in the mod_rewrite module. Directives Alias directive Syntax: Alias URL-path file-path|directory-path Context: server config, virtual host Status: Base Module: mod_alias Example: Alias /image /ftp/pub/image AliasMatch. WikiHow - The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit.

Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control. Apache HTTP Server Version 1.3 You are looking at the documentation for the 1.3 version of the Apache HTTP Server, which is no longer maintained, and has been declared "end of life". If you are in fact still using the 1.3 version, please consider upgrading. The current version of the server is 2.4.

Apache has three distinct ways of dealing with the question of whether a particular request for a resource will result in that resource actually be returned. These criteria are called Authorization, Authentication, and Access control. Authentication is any process by which you verify that someone is who they claim they are. Authorization is finding out if the person, once identified, is permitted to have the resource. Finally, access control is a much more general way of talking about controlling access to a web resource. Because these three techniques are so closely related in most real applications, it is difficult to talk about them separate from one another. How basic authentication works. Mod_rewrite: A Beginner's Guide to URL Rewriting [Apache & IIS Configuration] This article was written in 2002 and remains one of our most popular posts.

If you’re keen to learn more about URLs, you may find this recent article on the “www” prefix, by Craig Buckler, of great interest. So you’re a web developer who has all the bells and whistles on your site, creates Web-based applications that are both beautiful and work well. But what about these issues? Applications Must Be Safe A user must not be able to harm your site in any way by modifying a URL that points to your applications. For example, imagine we have a simple script that shows all the products in a category. Generally, it’s called like this: myapp.php? But what will this application do if ScriptKiddie(tm) comes and types this in his browser: myapp.php? Well, many of the sites I’ve seen will drop some error message complaining about use of the wrong SQL query, invalid MySQL resource ID, and so on.

Applications Must Be Search-Engine Friendly myapp.php? Myapp.php “you have an error in your sql syntax” .php -forum. Apache Reference: mod_speling. Preventing Image 'Theft' The Melonfire Community - Trog. Welcome! - The Apache HTTP Server Project. Ken Coar's Apache Tutorials. Apache Tutorials. Tech-Recipes.com - Computer help Windows Solaris Linux Cisco MySQL Programming.