[thelist] symlinks/freebsd/apache
rudy
Rudy_Limeback at maritimelife.ca
Thu Oct 5 14:01:00 CDT 2000
> Alias /photos "/where/ever/pics"
> Alias /photoes "/where/ever/pics"
> Alias /photos/ "/where/ever/pics"
> Alias /photoes/ "/where/ever/pics"
thanks dan & thanks martin for the example -- i liked the quail referense
;o)
what a coincidence, this reminds me of something i was thinking about just
yesterday (so, like, lost in the antiquities of time, now... you know how
it is when you get older, the days seem to zip by faster and faster and
then BLAM, one day yougo to sleep forever...)
anyhow, without getting into whether this type of "mapping" should be
accomplished with aliases or redirects or application.cfm files or
whatever...
... it sure would be useful when pointing people to specific articles in
the evolt site
it would be so much easier to type http://evolt.org/foobar from memory
than to (a) go to the site and run a search for the article, which is not
always convenient if you are answering email offline, then (b) cut and
paste the resulting url into your email message
i sure can't remember article id numbers, heck i have trouble remembering
what colour socks i got on at this very moment
[ made you look!!! ]
besides, when your recipients get the email with
http://evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=669 in it, they may have to cut and
paste into the address bar anyway, as not all emailers will automatically
underline the entire url including all parameters
(http://evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=669, by the way, is the only
article that comes up on a search for "foobar")
some realistic examples that come to mind --
640 x 480 Isn't Dead Just Yet
deadyet ==> index.cfm?menu=8&cid=275
Liquid Tables
liquid ==> index.cfm?menu=8&cid=2321
web site architecture 101
architecture101 ==> index.cfm?menu=8&cid=635
Some Caveats with Using Frames
frames ==> index.cfm?menu=8&cid=293
now *that's* what i call a site map!
i have an article in me somewhere, more of a rant really, which basically
says that any time you see a Site Map on a web site, run for the hills --
you're gonna get lost in this site fer shure, yessirreee
see, your navigation scheme *is* your site map, and if you need a site map
to explain your site structure, how good is your nav scheme, eh?
okay, i can see the benefit of having a page which lists all the other
pages in the site, like what you would get if you took the home page of a
directory like yahoo and expanded all the entries, exploded all the
breadcrumb trails, in an indented list or something...
... but who does that anymore? the few times i've seen this method, it
was pretty effective, i think they are called navigation trees or
something...
if anyone has run across any sites with good site maps, i'd love to see
them...
rudy
r937.com
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