Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:40:17 +0000

Using Apache on *nix? Let's say you have test.example.com set up as a virtual host with public_html/test as its document root.

The simplest way I can think of is to create a symbolic link in the filesystem called public_html/test/whatever pointing to ../different-folder. If you have shell access you can do it with ln -s ../different-folder whatever while in public_html/test.

Another way is to use Alias and Directory in your VirtualHost config for test.example.com. Add to it something like:

<VirtualHost ...>
...
    Alias "/whatever" "/path/to/public_html/different-folder"
    <Directory "/path/to/public_html/different-folder">
        DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
...
</VirtualHost>