Basically an alias, this is a login pathname, specified by CGI, which differs from the actual, physical pathname. Typically used for security reasons.

Basically an alias, this login path name is specified by CGI and differs from the actual, physical path name. Typically used for security reasons. Used in ARWeb to specify program and data directories.

The path relative to the current directory, eg in UNIX if you are in /usr/guest then a virtual path to the file in /usr/guest/poems/rose.txt would be /poems/rose.txt.

Each website you visit has a 'path to it', its address, aka URL (Uniform Resource Location). The virtual path is exactly what you think it is, a 'non real' path to your webpage, in a way its analogous to a redirect. Using virtual paths in MySource you can easily migrate the real old paths of your old site into the CMS without breaking anyones' links to your site.

n. 1. A sequence of names that is used to locate a file and that has the same form as a pathname in the file system but is not necessarily the actual sequence of directory names under which the file is located. The part of a URL that follows the server name is a virtual path. For example, if the directory c:\bar\sinister\forces\distance on the server miles is shared on the local area network at foo.com under the name \\miles\baz and contains the file elena.html, that file may be returned by a Web request for http://miles.foo.com/baz/elena.html. 2. In Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), a set of virtual channels that are switched together as a unit through the network. See also ATM (definition 1), virtual channel.