Root URL-Paths
Root URL-Path Format
A URL-path is considered a Root URL-path if Root is the Default Source Type
or if the URL-path begins with an alias that has a Source Type of Root.
The only real difference between how Web Server/400 treats Root URL-paths
and how IFS treats paths in the Root file system is that the URL-paths are
always relative to the directory stored in the Document Root configuration value.
Symbolic Links in URL-paths
URL-paths themselves cannot containing symbolic links, but the files they
represent in IFS can be symbolic links. The
Root file system is currently the only file system that supports the
creation of symbolic links. Symbolic links can, however, point to files
that reside in any file system.
Root URL-Path Examples
For these examples, assume that /Samples/ is a valid directory
off of Document Root, Document Root is set to
/WWWServ/WebDocs/, and that Root is the Default Source Type. With this setup, each of the
following requests would be handled as described.
- A URL-path of
/Samples/Environmental/Pinetrees.html
- The Web server would return the file
/WWWServ/WebDocs/Samples/Environmental/Pinetrees.html to the
browser.
- A URL-path of
/Samples/SymLink/ProdDB
- Assuming that
/WWWServ/WebDocs/Samples/SymLink is a
symbolic link to /qsys.lib/company.lib, the Web server would
return the formatted fields of the first member of the database file
/qsys.lib/company.lib/ProdDB.file to the browser.