File Aliases

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This document has the following sections:

Settings
Procedures
Buttons

The File Alias page allows you to define pointers from requested filenames to filenames on your machine.

For example, suppose you are developing a set of web pages, and you want a quick way to access them without having to enter long URLs. If your machine is named nightsky and your user name is galileo, and one of the files you wanted to access was moon.html:

The real path might be:

doc_root/galileo/march97/planets/visible/moon.html

The URL would then be:

http://nightsky:8080/galileo/march97/planets/visible/moon.html

To shorten it, you could use the following alias settings:

Alias Pathname:/shortcut
Full Pathname: /~galileo/march97/planets/visible

Now to connect to the file moon.html using the alias, type the following URL:

http://nightsky:8080/shortcut/moon.html

Settings

Alias Pathname
The pathname of the requested file or directory.

Full Pathname
The actual pathname for the files you are using. Note that the files are relative to the document root (which is specified in the site setup screen), unless they are specified as absolute paths. For example, tmp would refer to doc_root/tmp, while /tmp would refer to /tmp.

Procedures

To Add a File Alias:

Click Add.
Enter the alias pathname.
Enter the full pathname.
Click Save.

To Delete a File Alias:

Select the alias.
Click Remove.
Click Save.

To Modify a File Alias:

Select an entry.
Click Modify.
Enter the new information.
Press Return.
Click Save.

Buttons

To make changes to the File Alias page and have those settings take affect, use the five buttons at the bottom of the screen. These are:

Add - Adds a new alias pathname to your alias list.
Modify - Selects a field and allows you to modify the selected alias pathname.
Remove - Removes the selected alias from the alias list.
Save - Writes your changes to the Java Web Server and changes the settings.
Revert - Takes you back to the previously saved settings for all fields in the screen. Use this button to undo changes you have not yet saved.

Note: If you Add, Modify, or Remove an alias pathname, you must Save before the changes take affect.

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