Help With Virtual Directories

Hi All,

I have just finished installing IBM's HTTP Server which is powered by
Apache 2.0 on a RS6000 server running AIX 5.3 ML2.

During the installation of the Cognos application the documentation
stated that we needed to create the following virtual directories.

- Create the following virtual directories:
Alias Location Permission
Cognos8 C8_Location/webcontent Read
Cognos8/cgi-bin C8_location/cgi-bin execute

Since I have never done this before I was looking for some help to
understand what it is they really want. Can someone either explain
this to me or paste a few links so that I can better understand what it
is they are requesting and how to set these directories up.

Thanks so much for reading this.
Shawn

create directories symlinked with the alias provided. ie:

cd /path/to/doc_root
ln -s /path/to/application/C8_Location/webcontent Cognos8
chmod 744 Cognos8

and chmod 755 for teh other directory.


"Shawn" <shawnm1964@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I have just finished installing IBM's HTTP Server which is powered by
> Apache 2.0 on a RS6000 server running AIX 5.3 ML2.
>
> During the installation of the Cognos application the documentation
> stated that we needed to create the following virtual directories.
>
> - Create the following virtual directories:
> Alias Location Permission
> Cognos8 C8_Location/webcontent Read
> Cognos8/cgi-bin C8_location/cgi-bin execute
>
> Since I have never done this before I was looking for some help to
> understand what it is they really want. Can someone either explain
> this to me or paste a few links so that I can better understand what it
> is they are requesting and how to set these directories up.
>
> Thanks so much for reading this.
> Shawn
>