[NTLUG:Discuss] Trailing backslashes

[Jack Snodgrass]

is this thread still going? It's like the energizer bunny. The default
behavior is 
supposed to work... if it's not, it may be something else configured
wrong.
You don't need alias or rewrite or anything... it just does it
automatically. 

You can ( if you have server-info enabled ) do 
http://127.0.0.0/server-info
and see what modules apache loads. It should have mod_dir in there. You
have to 
do special things to NOT get that loaded. 

You said that you are redirected to a google page or something when this
breaks. This is a web client thingie... turn of 'smart searching' or
whatever
your client calls so that it will not redirect you to google but show
you what it 
really is trying to do. That might help figure this problem out. 

the config things that effect this behavior ( adding a / to a directory
) are
Servername
and 
UseCanonicalName

if your machine isn't smart enought to know who it is ( or had multiple
names
and addresses etc ) you need to set ServerName to be your machine name. 
This will be returned as part of the response when it adds the trailing
response. 

You also need to set UseCanonicalName On to aid in this. 

What are you 
Servername
UseCanonicalName
variables set to in the httpd.conf file? 

jack 



jack 


On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 09:19, MadHat wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 07:53, Richard Humphrey wrote:
> > No, not using alias directive. I found some info on the Apache site
> > regarding the ReWriteEngine directive that talks about the trailing
> > backslash issue, but when I tried to implement it, I kept getting
> > errors. This is a standard Redhat /var/www/html/support directory. The
> > only other thing we are doing is using .htaccess for this directory.
> > 
> 
> 
> Do you have mod_dir installed?
> That is all it does.  I even posted 2 links, one for 1.3 and one for 2.0
> Apache.  The rewrite engine is overkill for this.