How can I config apache mod rewrite?

Question

My web root is /var/www/test/public, eg：http://www.test.local is rewrite to here, but there's a folder /var/www/test/documents/ where I store some pictures to let others download. How can I config my apache rewrite mod to allow users to download pictures in this documents folder by a url? Can anyone help me? Thanks!

Answer 1

You don't need mod_rewrite for that. You can use an Alias directive to map that images directory into your document root:

Alias /images /var/www/test/documents
      ^--web path   ^---file system path

That'd make any request for example.com/images be internally redirected to /var/www/test/documents, even though that documents dir is not within your site's webroot.