SSh, Apache implementation

[Eric Tanguy]

Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 à 14:44 -0600, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) a
écrit :
> > 
> > Robert,
> > 
> > You told me to do
> > mount -t nfs titanic:/home/documents /var/www/html/databse
> > /home/documents has user right.
> > How the system will be able to acess it ?
> > But
> Oops, the mount would be done on titanic and should read:
> 
> mount -t nfs databse:/home/documents /var/www/html/databse
> 
> Some days I cannot paste correctly.  Sorry.
> 
> The existing empty directory
> named /var/www/html/database on titanic will be overlaid by the
> mount point.  /var/www/html is the default place the Linux apache
> looks for documents to server.  If you have changed this in the
> configuration script (or utility) then put the mount in the appropriate
> place.  Thus:
> http://titanic/database/some_file.html  will reference the file in
> /home/docuements on databse.  
> 
> When you get this working to your satisfaction using a manual mount
> command, you may want to update /etc/fstab to do the mount at boot
> time.  This can cause complications however if titanic gets booted
> when databse is off.  Another approach is to use the automounter 
> to do the mount.

How to use an automounter to do this ? What's the advantages ?
Thanks
Eric