[2166] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: WWW FAQ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Holger Reif)
Wed May 29 10:46:36 1996
Date: Wed, 29 May 96 14:23:55 +0200
From: Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE (Holger Reif)
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, swcheung@hkimd.cig.mot.com
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> I am sorry to send this question that is not related to security of
> WWW... Please advise me where I should send this kind of WWW FAQ...
>
> Question:
>
> Is it possible to alias a web page as another site?
>
> For example:
>
> http://www.abc.def.com/~zzz/index.html
>
> alias to
>
> http://www.zzz.abc.def.com/index.html
Yes, but it depends...
1.) www.abc.def.com and www.zzz.abc.def.com are the same host and the same server. You can link both pages together (eg. UNIX ln) or just alias them in your server
(eg. NCSA: Alias directive in srm.conf)
2.) www.abc.def.com and www.zzz.abc.def.com are the same host but on different
servers (virtual server). You can link both pages together (eg. UNIX ln) via the
file system.
3.) www.abc.def.com and www.zzz.abc.def.com are different host not sharing a
common file system. none of the above is possible.
In all case you can use a redirection (HTTP response code 302) to link one page
to the other (eg. NCSA httpd: Redirect directive in srm.conf)
Additional poosibilities might provide some fancy HTML extensions like the
refresh feature of netscape. But this I havn't tested.
read you later - Holger Reif
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