We known this folder contains real files and two real folders css and images to access these folders a user could type one of the following addresses into a browser: "/" is an alias to location Z:\www - Whats important a user sees only whats in that folder. Where to find what to serve is important to the server because it needs to know where on a hard-drive or other media to find the information to serve.Ī user provides the path " /" our server translates this to Z:\www The following table shows what a user would type into a browser to access a page test.html (what type of server to talk to) On the previous page FileZila's user root (home) was mapped to folder z:\(what type of server to talk to)(where to find the server)(where to find what to serve )(what to serve)Ī server is interested in the last two parts if these are not supplied root is assumed and something appropriate is served. Interestingly they both use the same symbol " /" to refer to root. While all folders, sub-folders and files in the root folder are.Īpache refers to this as the web-root folder while FileZilla refers to it as the home folder. All folders and files above this root folder are not visible. What they see displayed is not real additional thigs happen behind the scenes.įor both Apache and FileZilla a root folder is nothing more than a starting point. Portable operation allows you to explore and test configurations if you break anything just throw the servers away and start again.Īlias is a polite way of saying you are lying to a user.
#FILEZILLA SERVER MAPPED DRIVE PORTABLE#
Although we are using portable mode the following are applicable to any of the installation modes. This page looks at setting up Aliases on portable FileZilla.