On May 28, 2013 2:20 PM, "Tim Landscheidt" <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> Jeremy Baron <jeremy@tuxmachine.com> wrote:
>
> >> > .htaccess is your friend :-)
>
> >> > [...]
>
> >> To be a bit more explicit :-):
>
> >> | Redirect /~$USERONTOOLSERVER/ http://tools.wmflabs.org/$TOOLONTOOLS/
>
> > probably better to use Alias. (at least for most people)
>
> Eh, how?  The Alias directive seems to allow only mapping to
> the local filesystem
> (http://support.zeus.com/zws/media/docs/ZWSUserGuide.pdf,
> page 361;
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_alias.html#alias
> as well).

I guess I meant Redirect (part of mod_alias as is Alias). (Don't have a shell handy here on my phone and haven't looked at the docs for a few weeks)