Alan Dayley wrote:

> I have Apache running on a box to serve up intranet web pages.  I want
> some main pages to have smaller URLs.  For example, I would like people to
> be able to access page:
> 
> http://thisserver/view/this/page/viewer.cgi
> 
> by entering the URL:
> 
> http://thisserver/viewer
> 
> I don't know if I should use Alias or Redirect directives in httpd.conf. 
> (I'm not a web guy.)  Maybe there is an even better way to do it, I don't
> know.  How would you accomplish this?

I think it also depends on what you want the user to actually see in the URL. 
If I understand the directives correctly, then if you Alias /viewer the user 
won't see the real URL whereas if you Redirect /viewer the user will.
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