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How do I create a website alias?

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Josh Rader	Thursday 17 January 2008 10:23:41 am We are running eZ Publish on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 server with Apache. Part of the website has an application for an intern program. This URL for this site is something like http://www.blah.com/career_management/intern_program. We want to make an alias so a person can type in 'http://www.blah.com/intern" and get to the site listed above, because it's a much shorter URL. How do we create this alias? I found the .vhost file and saw there were aliases listed there. Can I just type in 'alias /intern /usr/local/httpd/career_management/blahblahblah' to create the alias? In other words, if all the files for the page we want to alias on in one folder, can i just create the alias to point to that folder and then it will go there? Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks.
Mark Marsiglio	Thursday 17 January 2008 10:49:00 am you can do this in the admin interface, under setup. Depending on which version you are running, it is called URL Translator. You can create shortcut URLs there. http://www.thinkcreative.com Turning Ideas Into Strategic Solutions
Josh Rader	Friday 18 January 2008 5:42:28 am Hey, can you give me some more detail on how to do this? We went to the admin interface, and put the full URL under 'system URL' and then put the shorter name we wanted under 'Virtual URL' and waited almost a full day, but the virtual URL doesn't work. We did this under 'Existing URLs' because the site already exists. Do you know why the virtual URL doesn't work? Thanks.

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Thursday 17 January 2008 10:23:41 am

We are running eZ Publish on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 server with Apache. Part of the website has an application for an intern program. This URL for this site is something like http://www.blah.com/career_management/intern_program. We want to make an alias so a person can type in 'http://www.blah.com/intern" and get to the site listed above, because it's a much shorter URL. How do we create this alias?

I found the .vhost file and saw there were aliases listed there. Can I just type in 'alias /intern /usr/local/httpd/career_management/blahblahblah' to create the alias? In other words, if all the files for the page we want to alias on in one folder, can i just create the alias to point to that folder and then it will go there? Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks.

Mark Marsiglio

Thursday 17 January 2008 10:49:00 am

you can do this in the admin interface, under setup. Depending on which version you are running, it is called URL Translator.

You can create shortcut URLs there.

http://www.thinkcreative.com
Turning Ideas Into Strategic Solutions

Josh Rader

Friday 18 January 2008 5:42:28 am

Hey, can you give me some more detail on how to do this? We went to the admin interface, and put the full URL under 'system URL' and then put the shorter name we wanted under 'Virtual URL' and waited almost a full day, but the virtual URL doesn't work. We did this under 'Existing URLs' because the site already exists. Do you know why the virtual URL doesn't work? Thanks.