Re: Apache alias or redirect?

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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