Synopsis: VirtualHost relative paths are being over-ridden by global Alias paths
State-Changed-From-To: feedback-closed State-Changed-By: dgaudet State-Changed-When: Sun Nov 9 01:44:47 PST 1997 State-Changed-Why: Sorry I took so long to close this one out. Apache is behaving correctly. <img src="images/foo.gif"> is a relative URL which the client translates into an absolute URL before sending the request to the server. Suppose this tag is embedded in a page at http://www.vhost.com/index.html. In that case, the relative "images/foo.gif" is mapped to the absolute "http://www.vhost.com/images/foo.gif";. This results in the URI "/images/foo.gif", which is properly Aliased by your global Alias directive. i.e. in this case <img src="/images/foo.gif"> and <img src="images/foo.gif"> refer to the exact same object. Regarding your other example, in ~userdir situations, the relative URL "images/foo.gif" refers to the absolute URI "/~userdir/images/foo.gif" which is definately different than "/images/foo.gif". Your only options are to not use "images" URIs in vhosts, or to remove the global Alias /images. Dean
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