title: apache alias vs symbolic link
body: <p>When working with apache on a unix system,</p>
  
  <p>If your file system has icons in /home/me/web/icons</p>
  
  <p>and you want the browser be able to display them when calling the url <a href="http://www.me.com/icons/myicon.jpg">http://www.me.com/icons/myicon.jpg</a>
  for example,</p>
  
  <p>then you have at least 2 solutions :</p>
  
  <p>alias ( Alias /icons/ /home/web/icons/ )</p>
  
  <p>symbolic links ( ln -s /home/web/icons /home/me/web/www/icons )</p>
  
  <p>It seems to me that using apache aliases is the best choice since we know exactly that aliases 
  would normally be in the /etc/apache2 directory ( so that is just one place to look at in case the application
  grows ), but I would be pleased to know about what solution you use and why ?</p>