UNC aliases

[skiflyer]

I'm migrating from a windows based apache server to a linux based apache server.

One problem I'm having is with my aliases, I have many aliases in windows which are setup via UNC paths...

Alias /process "//machinename/sharename/folder"
<Directory "//machinename/sharename/folder">
  Options....
  And so on
</Directory>

But I don't think this will work in linux, do I need to mount each share in my fstab, and then use the mount directory, or do I need to configure things somehow to see UNC paths? The mounting seems the easiest, but I'm not sure it's correct practice, so would appreciate any feedback.

 

[Wishdiak]

skiflyer,

I think what you're trying to accomplish can be done with the Redirect directive.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect

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[skiflyer]

No, redirect actually puts you on another webserver.

I'm trying to actually serve up that content... it's the Alias directive at the top of that page.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html#alias

I'm just not sure the way to use UNC paths in Linux.

 

[Wishdiak]

skiflyer,

Maybe I misunderstood. Are you trying to alias to a local folder or a network share?

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[skiflyer]

It's a network share.

And on my windows setup, the user running apache has access to the share, so I was able to just put the UNC path in my alias command.

In my linux setup, supposedly I'm running as that same user, but I'm not sure all the domain setups are correct or not yet.

So I'm trying to use that same network share, it's not working at all... so what I was going to do is mount all of these alias's to local folders and use those... but that seems a little tedious to me. However, I'll gladly do it if it's considered correct procedure.

 

[Wishdiak]

skiflyer,

Although I have never done it, you can mount network shares using Samba. You can then set up your aliases to point to local mount points.

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/

Wishdiak
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[skiflyer]

Exactly... that's my fall back plan... but it seems like double the work, so I'm wondering if there's another way to do it or not.