Apache Administrator's Handbook

Chapter 9. URL Mapping

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Location

• Alias

• ScriptAlias

• AliasMatch and ScriptAliasMatch

• Redirect

• DocumentRoot

• Error Documents

• URL Rewriting

	“When you've only got two ducks, they're always in a row.”
	--Me

When Apache receives a request for a URL it has to figure out how that URL maps to actual content that it needs to send back to the client. Usually, the URL gets mapped directly to a file that is read off of the disk and sent as-is out to the client. Occasionally, the URL maps to a program of some variety that generates content, which then gets sent out.

This phase of figuring out what to send in response to a request is called the URL mapping phase. There are a number of directives that assist Apache in figuring out how to perform this mapping. ...