Questions tagged [alias]
In computer sciences, an alias is a name which usually designates an already-named reference.
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Source bash.rc / aliasses from external file (LEMP)
I'm running several LEMP VMs with mostly identical setups. Each of these VMs has a /etc/profile.d/00-aliases.sh containing a bunch of aliasses and functions to run on the server.
Now, whenever I make ...
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Postfix Alias issues
I am having an issue with setting up an alias "support-notify" in Postfix.
Recipient address rejected: Access denied;
I am running Postfix with OpenDKIM, OpenDMARC, Policyd-SPF, and Dovecot on ...
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Set alias from sh script in ESXi 6
I have created a simple script to setup an alias on an ESXi 6.7 host:
#!/bin/sh
alias ll="ls -la"
echo "Profile done"
When I run the script I see the echo'd message on screen, but the alias is not ...
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Postfix with external alias rejected
i have a problem with external aliases on my server. There are aliases for my users so they can retrieve mails on their personal mailaccount. For example:
user1@mydomain.com user1 user1@gmail.com
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Multiple Domain Names. Alias not Redirection
I need to get my new domain for example.net to not only respond to the same content as I have for the existing example.com, but I need the user to actually still only see example.net when they get to ...
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Unable to load PHP files from second server directory
My server has a root directory which is /home/forge/example.com/current/ionic/www and a secondary API PHP directory, located /home/forge/example.com/current/public.
When the user browses to example....
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Postfix virtual_alias_maps won't work
I have the following entry in virtual_alias_maps:
ttt@works-organizer.ch: tibor.nagy@works-organizer.ch
However if I send an email to ttt@works-organizer.ch, it fails with User unknown in virtual ...
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Why isn't my Nginx alias directive working?
I'm using Nginx on CentOS 7 with Ruby on Rails / Puma. I would like for certain file paths to be skipped by RoR and be served directly by Nginx. I created this in my "server" block for my site
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Windows server, temporary alias name, only visible from one machine
Two weeks ago our IT department migrated a huge network folder from an older server to a newer one. For example, the older folder was reachable under
\\oldserver\ourfolder
and the new one under
\\...
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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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Active Directory Domain name alias
I have a server 2012r2 environment. We have our domain name that we would like to alias to another name so users do not see the current domain name. There are multiple UPN's in the network.
In ...
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Apache alias a short extensionless symbol to a file
I would like to have a short url like:
https://myDomain/essr
to evaluate to:
https://myDomain/dir1/dir2/myFile.html
I've been trying to use alias in my apache config but I haven't been able to ...
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NGINX PHP FastCGI multiple locations (alias) issue
First time posting and very new to all this - was advised to try here over stack overflow and have read a few different things linked but just cannot get my head around it. After alot of trial and ...
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NGINX Remove index.php in URL Rewrite
i had to modify an NGINX configuration to allow getting the static files from a different folder.
server {
listen 80;
server_name app.test;
root "/home/vagrant/app/public";
index ...
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How to know if connection is made to a server using alias or not? [duplicate]
Is there a way to know if the connection to a host is made via an alias or using the direct host name itself? This is in Linux.
Basically I want to find out what are the connections made to my DB ...
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Virtual Alias File Using Regular Expression in Exim 4.89
I would like to thank you in advance for taking my question. I am deploying a mail server using Exim, version 4.89, and would like to use a virtual alias file using regular expression to forward ...
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Can't connect to site in IIS through DNS Alias, but can connect through localhost
I have a site in IIS configured and visible over localhost.
I have also set up an CNAME Alias within the DNS to point to this server as 'main' and set up the bindings for the site with 'main' over ...
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Autoindex cuts off end of directory path; workaround needed
I'm trying to set up a sort of shared hosting with nginx where each user has a public_html directory. Requests to /~username are aliased to /home/domain-users/username/public_html. Problem is, I also ...
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Postfix: multiple aliases for same mail address from multiple results
I am about to configure our new mailserver and one feature must be that mailinglists must be delivered to multiple receipients as well as to an internal shared imap folder.
we store most of our users ...
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Email administration - Best Practices
Is there a better way to manage email for ~250 users other than using 1 Office 365 user and assigning aliases, then using rules to sort them into folders?
The problem I am having is as we approach ...
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Nginx location alias for theme files
I'm trying to move my theme files outside of document root. I'm using nginx for the server and I've tried using alias and root directives in a location block. Nothing I've tried works and I suspect it'...
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Bash directory alias/redirect
I'm trying to compile a library and his dependencies (lots of dependencies), but the system that I'm using didn't have the usual directory structure. I'm searching for a method to "redirect" all the ...
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Nginx is not serving Perl files
I am running Nginx server on Debian 9. My problem is that, Nginx is serving Perl files in root directory, but it is not serving in alias directory (I get 403 Forbidden).
This is my configuration of ...
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Mapping alias in virtual host for a website - URL routes do not work
I have two Laravel sites: a front page and an API site. My customer will later separate the API site on a subdomain, but for the time being the customer wants to serve the API from inside "subfolder" ...
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shell : warn about or deny command execution with help of an alias
executing
iptables -F
is very dangerous if your default policy for one or all chains is DROP
I would like to use an alias in bashrc like
alias iptables -F="echo \
'WARNING: due to the DROP ...
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Nginx: use $http_host in location
I got many server aliases in nginx configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com site1.example.com site2.example.com site3.example.com
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How i can control specific ...
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Postfix not respecting mysql alias domains
So the setup is using postfix, dovecot, postfixadmin and mysql. I have configured postfix admin to alias one domain, "name.co.uk" to "name.net", I see this in the database so there's no issue there. ...
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Execute local alias through ssh on remote server
I know I can execute a function through SSH on a remote server like so:
$ ssh remote_server "$(declare -f cool_function); cool_function"
I also have some aliases that I would like to execute on ...
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Is it possible to create a global SQL Server alias?
I understand it is possible to create a SQL Server alias on a per-client basis via SQL Server Configuration Manager, but is it possible to do it globally, on the target SQL Server server?
My goal ...
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Apache Alias to serve /blog from another directory
I'm upgrading our website, the blog hasn't been done yet so I want everything starting with www.mydomain.com/blog* to use the code under a specific directory (var/www/blog) everything else will come ...
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Alias hostname and file path
Is it possible to mask the hostname with an Alias and variables?
For example:
I would like to call http://easyNameToRemember/path/to/file
instead of:
http://uglyServerName:8000/the/real/path/to/...
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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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SMTP name too long for Canon
I am setting up a Canon iR device to scan to email, but their field name for SMTP server is too short for my MX record address.
Is there a way to set-up an alias that would work round this, or some ...
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Filter mail recipient by alias matching with sender's domain
I use an alias for each company that I provide an e-mail contact. So, for example, in /etc/aliases
somecompany: myuser
The address I supply to SomeCompany would be somecompany@mydomain.com
If the ...
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Same Postfix aliases for different domains
I've got Postfix managing two different domains one.com and two.com, included in the my destination variable of the main.cf file.
I need an /etc/aliases file including something like this:
user@one....
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Postfix: forward email to non-local address - expanded from user unknown
I'm running into issues with postfix, specifically while creating a local virtual alias to forward email to external addresses (on other servers).
My goal is to: Forward all email sent to fwd@xyz.com ...
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Alias specific hostnames by regex to fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
Is there any way on linux to alias a group of hostnames (group specified by wildcards/regex) starting i.e c-* to fully qualified domain names
i.e
c-hostname -> c-hostname.domain.com
Thank you,
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Nginx regex alias on common location
I am trying to recursively serve the content of a folder for several customer IDs to pertain backwards compatibility to a respective application beyond my influence.
I want all URLs paths beginning ...
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How to turn this into an alias?
I frequently use this command:
grep -rnw donkey | grep market | cut -c -80
How can I change it into an alias on Linux?
I tried:
alias search='grep -rnw $1 | grep $2 | cut -c -200'
But when I run ...
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Exim4 email forward not working
I have been trying to set up an email forward on my server, which uses Exim 4. I want to forward all emails sent to steve@mydomain.com to john@mydomain.com.
From reading elsewhere and looking at a ...
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SSL certificates and DNS CNAME
I am wondering if an SSL certificate would work and be accepted in the following circumstances. In each of these circumstances, one DNS name returns a CNAME record for another DNS name, and the ...
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Is it possible to chain relative MX records?
I need to make an "MX chain" as the following:
@alias.mydomain.net --> @mail.mydomain.net --> @smtp.targetdomain.net
(1) (2) (3)
Say an SMTP ...
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Exchange 2013, partnerships, domains, & out of office
Background: I work at a company with several confidential business partnerships that require employees to appear as though they work for another company/brand and use multiple domains via email in ...
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LDAP: Posix group alias
I have a group in my LDAP ('devteam') that I use for login on all machines of the parc.
I would like all these users to also belong to the group 'docker', that allows them to manipulate the docker ...
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postfix - allow sending email with related alias
I have installed postfix 2.11.3 + +sasl + postfixadmin + dovecot + roundcube on debian 8. All is working fine but today every users can send email with another email address.
I would like to add a ...
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Getting hostname on CentOS 6.6 from command line
In the command below, I'm trying to get the hostname of the server I'm logged into. Please note that I'm on the actual server and not ssh'ed into another server!! I'm trying to get the hostname. ...
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How to configure an alias in nginx
Im switching from apache to nginx and im not sure how i would do the following in nginx.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ProxyRequests On
Alias /faq /var/www/http
<Directory /var/...
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how to undo 'Alias' in Virtualhost
I wanted www.domain1.tld/domain2 to point to /www/directory2
So I added an 'Alias line' to my Virtualhost config apache2/sites-available/domain1.conf like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
...
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nginx downloads php instead of processing it
I have been trying to make a simple alias in nginx and the furtherest I could get is to get the server to send me the file.
When I visit /xhprof_html in my browser the server asks me to download the ...
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Have 2 different applications use 2 different ip's with the same port on the same host
I want to have an application running on x.x.x.x:80 and another one at y.y.y.y:80 on the same host. I have bought 2 ips from ovh and would like to know how to do so.
I found these:
Debian/OVH: How to ...
