Mapping a domain to a subdirectory?

[Joseph S D Yao]

> Is it possible to map a domain name to a subdirectory on another server?
> For example, I have a customer who would like to register www.foo.com and
> have it pointed to www.bar.com/~username
> 
> Can this be done?  I was always under the impression that a CNAME, for
> example, can only point to another SERVER, not to a specific directory.
> 
> Any help you can offer would be appreciated.
> 
> Eric Longman

As anyone doing a search of the archives would find may times, you are
right and he is not.  However [also in the archives], there are ways
that Apache can cue on the incoming name to go to different directories.

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