Questions tagged [alias]
In computer sciences, an alias is a name which usually designates an already-named reference.
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Is it possible to alias a hostname in Linux?
Is it possible to alias a hostname in Linux?
It has been asked by jmillikin at various Ubuntu forums as follows:
Is it possible to create a hostname alias? Sort of like /etc/hosts,
but with other ...
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How to configure a Windows machine to allow file sharing with a DNS alias
What process is necessary to configure a Windows environment to allow me to use DNS CNAME to reference servers?
I want to do this so that I can name my servers something like SRV001, but still have \\...
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Server Aliases on NGINX
I'm moving a site to a new server running on NGINX. The old site's Apache2 VirtualHost has ServerAlias configured that I want to replicate in the NGINX configuration.
From what I've read on the ...
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CNAME record/alias in windows hosts file?
Is it possible to enter some sort of CNAME record or alias in the windows hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts)?
Basically I want to forward all requests made to host A to host B, ...
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How to pass alias through sudo
I have an alias that passes in some parameters to a tool that I use often. Sometimes I run as myself, sometimes under sudo. Unfortunately, of course, sudo doesn't recognise the alias.
Does anyone ...
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Confused about alias_maps and virtual_alias_maps
I have already re-read the docs on this as well as other posts here and this is still very unclear to me. I have been testing various things to understand the difference between alias_maps and ...
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How to use my aliases in my crontab?
I have some commands in my .profile that I want to invoke from my crontab.
For example, if I have,
alias notify-me="~/bin/notify.pl -u user1"
alias notify-team="~/bin/notify.pl -u user1 user2 ...
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How to override the default dir alias in Powershell?
I wanted to see colorized filenames when I typed dir in Powershell. So, I added the Set-ChildItemColor function from here to my profile file. I also added this line at the end of the profile file to ...
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backslash at the beginning of a command
In Installing RVM manual I see a lot of lines starting with '\':
Install RVM with ruby:
$ \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
I'd think it is just mistype but they repeat it ...
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No targets available when trying to set alias target from Route 53 to S3
I'm trying to setup a simple Amazon AWS S3 based website, as explained here.
I've setup the S3 bucket (simples3websitetest.com), gave it the (hopefully) right permissions:
{
"Version": "2012-10-...
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What is an Amazon Route53 "Alias" DNS record?
AWS Route53 Alias value
Consider a domain registered on AWS Route53. HTTP requests to this domain should be served from a AWS CloudFront CDN distribution. In order to achieve this, an alias A record ...
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Postfix - do not list domain example.com in BOTH mydestination and virtual_alias
I have a server with two domains. I get the warning as mentioned in the title:
do not list domain example.com in BOTH mydestination and virtual_alias
Although I receive the above warning, it works ...
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Oracle difference between SID, DB Name, DB Domain, Global Database Name, Service Name, Service Alias and Instance Name
What's the difference of SID, DB Name, DB Domain, Global Database Name, Service Name, Service Alias and Instance Name in Oracle ?
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Can apache use the Alias directive to fetch a file?
I was wondering if there is a way to use the Alias directive with just one file. Or there was a hack to do this, without having to go into another directory.
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Why is my nginx alias not working?
I'm trying to set up an alias so when someone accesses /phpmyadmin/, nginx will pull it from /home/phpmyadmin/ rather than from the usual document root. However, everytime I pull up the URL, it gives ...
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Postfix, virtual aliases and catchall for undefined addresses
In Postfix 2.10.2, I have a setup with multiple domains and several virtual aliases to assign mail addresses to local users. It works fine as long as I do not add a catchall.
Before I used virtual ...
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nginx, alias, php-fpm = File not Found
I'm trying to set up nginx with DAViCal.
However, I'm getting a "File not Found" with a "FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" in the log.
Looks like something is wrong with my aliasing but ...
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Finding all aliases for a server
Our network admin is away at the moment. I'm trying to find all aliases attached to a given server on our network (actually a number of servers)
After googling around it seems like nslookup might do ...
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Useful bash aliases and generating a listing of your most used commands
I found this article discussing a quick way to sort your bash history and see which commands you use the most:
cut -f1 -d" " .bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 30
It really opens ...
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Can a Windows Active Directory user have aliases?
I've just created a simple AD on our Windows 2008 r2 server. I've added a few employees into that directory.
Now, is it possible to create some aliases for a single account.
eg.
name = foo.bar@...
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Is it possible to hide a malicious alias in Bash on Linux?
Is it possible to conceal the existence of a malicious alias in Bash on a Linux system and have it executed by the user without their knowledge?
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Error "not found or unable to stat" in apache logs, and difference in httpd.conf and site Document Roots
I get many of these errors each day in my apache error log:
[error] [client 127.0.0.1] script '/var/www/html/wp-cron.php' not found or unable to stat
and I'm wondering if it has something to with my ...
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DKIM not signing with alias addresses - not internal, not authenticated
I have postfix, dovecot, opendkim and postsrsd installed. I am trying to forward mail from [email protected] to [email protected], and have them signed with DKIM.
I use postsrsd in order for the SPF ...
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Can I alias all directory requests to a single file in nginx?
I'm trying to figure out how to take all requests made to a particular directory and return a json string without a redirect, in nginx.
Example:
curl -i http://example.com/api/call1/
Expected ...
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ANAME / ALIAS records for BIND
I operate some DNS servers using BIND for around 15,000 domain names. Some customers would like to start using a Full-Site Content Delivery CDN and a requirement for this is supporting the usage of ...
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How to create an alias for a named SQL Server instance
On my developer computer I have an SQL Server instance named developer_2005. In the resource setting files of a C# application we are creating, the instance name is set to foobar (not really, but just ...
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What's actually requested when alias is set up in Apache with CNAME?
I have many sub-domains set to my development machine like the following.
test1.example.com => 192.168.0.7
test2.example.com => 192.168.0.7
... (about 30 domains like this)
I have many sites on my ...
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Understanding Exim4's /etc/aliases
Regarding this exim /etc/aliases man page
I am not sure how /etc/aliases works. The
/etc/aliases
The file should contain lins of the form
name: address, address, ...
I looked in /usr/share/...
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Apache dynamic alias based on sub-domain
I have the following structure as part of a ZF1 application -
C:/www/multisite
C:/www/multisite/application
C:/www/multisite/public
C:/www/multisite/client1/uploads
C:/www/multisite/client2/uploads
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Linux :: Shared aliases in /etc/profile.d not applied to root user, why?
On my Fedora 14 developer machine I can add a sharedAliases.sh file to /etc/profile.d -- both my user and root user then have access to the shared aliases.
Switch over to remote CentOS 5.7 machine ...
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SSL, CNAME, and multiple domains
Say I have an SSL Certificate for a super cool site that I offer, like https://secure.coolsite.com/ (Not my site, just an example).
Then lets say I had a customer who wanted to have a CNAME to my site ...
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DNS lookup aliasing of hostnames (not IP aliases), probably via dnsmasq
I'd like to be able to set up a host, say "eg", to be an alias to some server on the internet, say "example.example.com".
I just need this functionality to be available from my local machine. I'm ...
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Redirect all non-www subdomains to main www domain with Apache2
I have a website (domain.com) and I would like to redirect all my secondary domains (domain2.com, domain3.com) and all the subdomains of these domains (*.domain.com, *.domain2.com...) to the main ...
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Alias not saved after reboot
I did
r00t@wutdo~$ alias daoc='mono "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/DAoC/Portal.exe"'
r00t@wutdo~$ daoc
Works fine and dandy but after reboot the alias isn't saved.
r00t@wutdo:~$ alias
alias alert='...
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Alias using Nginx causing phpMyAdmin login endless loop
Recently I've been trying to set up a web server using Nginx (I normally use Apache). However I've ran into a problem trying to set phpMyAdmin up on an alias. The alias correctly takes you too the ...
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Postfix: How to make aliases work for virtual domains?
I'm trying to set up a local mailserver. I run Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard, and it uses Postfix as server. I set the server up using the GUI and I'm doing all virtual settings via the terminal.
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Set Apache Alias for specific ServerAlias
Currently, I have a VirtualHost defined like so:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias otherdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/project/
</VirtualHost>
How can ...
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How to create aliases without installing SQL Server 2005 Client Tools
I need to configure SQL Server aliases on a public-facing production server. To do that, I need to install SQL Server Configuration Manager.
I was not able to find a standalone installer for that, so ...
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How to handle external alias with dspam as daemon between postfix and dovecot with virtual domains?
I've got the following situation for incoming mail with Postfix 2.9.6, DSpam 3.10.1 and Dovecot 2.1.7:
Incoming Mail -> SMTP -> LMTP -> DSpam (as daemon) -> LMTP -> Dovecot
I've got ...
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What is the proper netmask for an alias IP address?
I did a lot of searching, but there seems to be conflicting info on what the proper netmask for an aliased IP address should be. Some of the conflicting info seems to be FreeBSD-specific. I'm looking ...
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Creating a postfix alias "[email protected]" to send to all users of a domain
I'm using Postfix + Dovecot with a MySQL database as backend and PostfixAdmin to administrate users and domains. Now I'm looking for an easy and automated approach to define per-domain alias of the ...
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How to SetEnv for an Alias
I have several Aliasses configured in apache configuration.
I would like to set an environmental variables for each of them. How?
I have this
/alias1 /mapped/to/a/path
/alias2 /mapped/to/a/path
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What system of administrative e-mail addresses does your organization use? [closed]
I'm getting ready to request a new batch of administrative e-mail addresses to replace an outdated hierarchy within my organization. I have the opportunity of choosing new aliases for 24/7 alert ...
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How do I write a bash script that sets up aliases for the parent shell?
I'm trying to write a script that will set up aliases for my bash shell, but I don't want to source it automatically in .bashrc - I need to have the aliases in a subset of my terminals.
Is it ...
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Dovecot: Email clients and duplicated folders
So in my server I'm usually going against a problem, different emails clients call some special folders like Sent and Trash different names like Sent Items and Deleted Items.
My question is, can I in ...
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Aliases in nginx/apache vs CNAME record?
In one of my nginx sites-available configuration file, I can specify a server name alias, like so:
server_name example.com www.example.com;
If I had an Apache server, I can do something similar with ...
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Apache dynamic aliases
I've got LAMP setup on a VM that I use for multiple projects. My document root is a /www and I create a folder for each project within it.
/www/project1-name/
/www/project2-name/
I access them in my ...
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Nginx - difference between root and alias?
My goal is to have a Laravel installation running alongside a Nuxt application generated as static content.
I'd like for Laravel to be available, when the location start with /api. This works as ...
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`sudo` with alias in Bash
I have a couple of aliases setup in my ~/.bash_profile and the same exact ones setup in /root/.bash_profile so I can do v file instead of vim file and etc.
These work fine when I am actually logged ...
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How to set local alias for a machine?
I would like to set an alias on my local PC for a network machine. I know that it can be done by adding an entry in the hosts file as long as the IP address of the machine is also specified. However, ...
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