[NTLUG:Discuss] Trailing backslashes

[Richard Humphrey]

Turning off UseCanonicalName to off did the trick. Thanks for all the
help.

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From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On
Behalf Of Jack Snodgrass
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:47 PM
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Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Trailing backslashes


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






> 
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> 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
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> 
> 
> 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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