Apache aliased directory invisible

[Derek Ragona]

At 10:16 PM 10/20/2008, David Karapetyan wrote:
>FreeBSD office19.resnet.nd.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0:
>Wed Oct  1 10:10:12 UTC 2008
>root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
>Hello all. I would like to make aliased directories in apache visible
>from the directory root. An example: When I visit http://myserver.com/,
>I would like to see the 'icons' folder (suppose that in my document root
>I have directories 'bobo' and 'gogo', but that /icons is actually an
>alias for /usr/local/share/icons). Bobo and gogo show up in the
>directoroy listing when I access http://myserver.com, but not /icons.
>How can I remedy this?

add a symbolic link:

ln -s /usr/local/share/icons [path to your doc root]/icons

typically for apache22 this would be:

ln -s /usr/local/share/icons /usr/local/www/apache22/data/icons

         -Derek

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