Apache aliased directory invisible

[Matthew Seaman]

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?
> 

Options Indexes for the icons area?

Create a stub directory "icons" under your web-root?

Don't use Aliases within apache, but create symlinks instead and tell
Apache to FollowSymLinks?

One or other of those should work...

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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