Different documentroots in different directories?

[fadecomic]

Hi,

I'm trying to do something that seems like it should be simple, but I can't figure it out.

I want to set a different documentroot for a given directory specified in the url.

In other words, I want www.example.com to go to the regular documentroot, but I want www.example.com/stuff to go to /usr/shared/pub/stuff.

I tried specifying a DocumentRoot inside a Location directive:

<Location /stuff>
 DocumentRoot /usr/shared/pub/stuff
 AuthType Basic
 AuthName "Stuff is here"
 AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/stuff-auth-file
 Require valid-user
</Location>

But that overwrites the DocumentRoot for the whole site. How can I do this? I don't want to use virtual hosts because I want this available to the public.

Thanks in advance.

[fadecomic]

To clarify a bit more, I want to be able to do what the SVN module does so sweetly with SVNParentPath:

<Location /svn>
  DAV svn
  
   SVNParentPath /Users/Shared/svn
  AuthType Basic
  ...
</Location>

[fadecomic]

Ignore. I figured it out.

[g1smd]

What did you use?

An internal rewrite is one way to tackle this.

[fadecomic]

I just used the Alias directive, actually. I was aware of it, but I never really played with it before. Real headsmacker.

<Directory "/Users/Shared/stuff">
  Options Indexes MultiViews
  AllowOverride None
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /stuff /Users/Shared/stuff