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    <h1>Description:</h1> <p>I often run into this problem when I have a website located in <code>/var/www/</code> that grows way too large, and decide to move, essentially all of it, to <code>/var/www/main_files</code>. Simply putting a symbolic link <code>/var/www/index.html</code> pointing to <code>/var/www/main_files/index.html</code> does not work. I believe the reason it does not work is because the <code>index.html</code> file is still be "executed" in the directory of the symbolic link (<code>/var/www</code>). Therefore, any files which need to be included/fetched, will no longer have the correct paths.</p> <p>One could change the VHost directory to <code>/var/www/main_files</code>, but that is too permanent. I may still want to have a few files in <code>/var/www</code>. I could also go through and manually change any file paths in the actual html/php/js files, but that is not only too permanent, it is painstakingly slow.</p> <h1>Question:</h1> <p>Is there a way, short of using mod_rewrite (which, again, is too permanent), to instruct Apache to follow symbolic links (assume symlinks are all within docroot) and, when the user goes to <strong>www.example.com/index.html</strong>, load the web page as if the user had gone to <strong>www.example.com/main_files/index.html</strong>? If not, then what other options should I consider?</p> <h1>Motivation:</h1> <p>I most often run into this problem when I want to debug a site, and I quickly download a free template (ie <a href="http://www.quackit.com/goto/?t=/html/templates/download/bryantsmith/anoceanofsky.zip" rel="nofollow">download this one</a>). Most of these templates have all their files in the top folder, making it very messy to dump it all to <code>/var/www</code>, especially with more than one template. What I want is to make a subfolder for the template, but still be able to load it from <strong>www.example.com/index.html</strong>, not explicitly from <strong>www.example.com/template1/index.html</strong></p>
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