Any way to access data from outside DocumentRoot?

Hi,

my DocumentRoot is /srv/www/blah.com/htdocs. I prefer to have all my
photos on my dedicated photo drive which is somehwere under
/usr/local/video/pics/.

After finding some contradictory getting access on my website to these
photos via symlinks, I've tried very hard to the +FollowSymLinks to work,
but then I found infos that this works only inside the
where its defined in (which for me is the same as the DocumentRoot).

Is anyone here aware of a solution? Can I somehow get access to data
stored outside my DocumentRoot? If so what keywords should I search for?
Or: What part of Apache's manual addresses this question?

Any help appreciated,
Raimund

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Re: Any way to access data from outside DocumentRoot?

It was thus said that the Great Raimund Eimann once stated:
> Hi,
>
> my DocumentRoot is /srv/www/blah.com/htdocs. I prefer to have all my
> photos on my dedicated photo drive which is somehwere under
> /usr/local/video/pics/.

You can add the following to your configuration file:

Alias /pics/ "/usr/local/video/pics/"

# directives to protect, set up this directory


The images will be references from the website as:

http://www.example.net/pics/...

But they will be stored on the disk under the given location in the Alias.

-spc


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