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NCSA server directives

The NCSA mapping directives perform URL matching on the basis of initial substrings. Wildcards are not supported. These directives are only recognized in the server resource configuration file.

Alias initial-substring replacement

If the initial substring of the path part of a URL matches that given in the directive, it is replaced with the contents of replacement.

    Alias /depts/sales/  /usr/depts/sales/

Analogous to the CERN Map and Pass directives.

Redirect initial-substring replacement

If the initial substring of the path part of a URL matches that given in the directive, the request is redirected to another server as specified by replacement.

    Redirect /sales/ http://othersite.org/usr/depts/sales/

Analogous to the CERN Redirect directive.

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