Phantom directories

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ScrubsFan

You are missing the fact that a URL is not a file path. It is a mapping to a path (or set of paths) performed and managed by the web server. The web server, through logic of it's own, can map URLs to different points in the directory tree, or to different paths on other directory trees, or even to non-existant ('phantom') files and directories.

buttuming that you are running Apache, you'll find that there is a config file that tells apache which directory tree directory matches the base url. This is the base of the directory tree you traverse when you go to the directory tree.

Now, the Apache config permits 'personal' web space. If the incoming URLdifferenttree is specified in the Apache config file, in a way thathome-ScrubsFan-www)

That's for the web URL. When you talk FTP, you talk to a different server with a different view of the directory tree. The FTP server can be (and usually is) configured such that anonymous access (which is the sort that the ftp:-url defaults to) is rooted in adifferentdirectory tree than anonymous web access. And the FTP server maps logged in users to other trees as well (usually to the full directory tree of the server, but this isn't always the case).

Thus ftp:--host-puband can be two different directories. And can be a different directory from either of the other two. All the mapping between virtual directory (the one named in the URL) and the real directory is done by the servicing applications.

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Lew Pitcher, IT Specialist, Enterprise Data Systems Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

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