[NTLUG:Discuss] Trailing backslashes

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:35, Richard Humphrey wrote:

> I agree, it should work, it is a default (up2date) RH 7.3 install with
> Apache. 
> 
> The Document root is /var/www/html
> Mod_dir is loaded
> Servername localhost is commented out
> UseCanonicalName is on
> 
> 

change UseCanonicalName to Off 
restart apache 
see if it makes a difference. If not
change UseCanonicalName back to On 
and
uncomment ServerName and set it to your server name
restart apache 
see if it makes a difference. One of those should do the trick. 

jack






> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On
> Behalf Of Jack Snodgrass
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:12 AM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Trailing backslashes
> 
> 
> 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.
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