Virtual host setup question

I have a local webserver called mike

The Document root is /www/htdocs

So I access it from another machine using http://mike

The Problem - what I want to do is if I type http://mike/cms then I
want it to access /www/cms not /www/htdocs/cms

I can't work out how to do it and am pulling out my hair

Is this possible and if so how do I do it

Any help would be appreciated

On 20 Feb, 09:49, Davide Bianchi <davideyeahs....DeleteThis@onlyforfun.net>
wrote:
> On 2008-02-20, mike_solomon <g....DeleteThis@solomontribe.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > The Problem - what I want to do is if I typehttp://mike/cmsthen I
> > want it to access /www/cms not /www/htdocs/cms
>
> You need an alias directive and a directory block to define the
> permissions on your directory
>
> Something like
>
> Alias /cms/ "/www/cms/"
> <Directory "/www/cms">
> Options...
> ...other directives as required
> </Directory>
>
> See the documentation for more informations.
> Be sure the permissions on the filesystems are correct for the
> /www/cms directory.
>
> Davide
>
> --
> Some are born to Enlightenment, some achieve Enlightenment,
> and others have Enlightenment larted upon them.
> --Greg

Thanks for that

I set up the following

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/srv/www/htdocs"

Alias /cms/ "/srv/www/cms/"

<Directory "/srv/www/cms">
allow from all
Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks
</Directory>


<Directory "/srv/www/htdocs">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

This almost works the way I want but I have to have a directory /srv/
www/htdocs/cms or it fails

Is there a way of dispensing with the empty directory cms?