How to use alias to shorten your website URL's in Cloudimage?

Alias – Definition

The term alias generally refers to an alternative name or label used to represent a file, command, address, or other resource. An alias allows you to access or locate the original resource using a simplified or customized name.

Storage Aliases 

Each storage provider follows a specific URL structure. For example:

• Microsoft Azure Blob Storage uses the following pattern:
  https://blobname.blob.core.windows.net/bucket_name

 To simplify this structure, Cloudimage provides a feature called Storage Aliases.

With Storage Aliases, you simply define an alias that corresponds to your storage location. This allows you to replace complex storage URLs with shorter, cleaner paths in your Cloudimage URLs. 

How aliases correspond to different storage providers:

• Microsoft Azure Blob Storage – The alias should correspond to the Blob container name.

• Google Cloud Storage – The alias should correspond to the Bucket name.

• Amazon S3 – The alias should correspond to the Bucket name + Region.

• Own HTTP-based storage – The alias should correspond to the Base image folder path.

Example (Microsoft Azure Blob Storage)

In the example shown in the screenshot:

_my_free_blob_ replaces:
https://freeaccessdemo.blob.core.windows.net/myfiles

This means that instead of exposing the full Azure Blob URL, you can use the defined alias in your Cloudimage URL.

Standard Aliases 

Standard Aliases

If your images are stored within multiple nested folders, you can shorten your Cloudimage URLs by using Standard Aliases.

For example, if you do not want to publicly expose the full repository path where your images are stored, you can define an alias such as:

_src0_ → static.mycompany.com/bucket/img

This allows you to replace long and complex paths with shorter, cleaner URLs.

Additionally, in the Standard Aliases section, you can define multiple aliases and include as many subfolders as needed within the alias path.

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