On 4 Aug 2013, at 6:50 AM, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote: > Kevin Bullock wrote: >> (...) I therefore >> suggest that 'apache2ctl -t' warn the user about the mid-line comment which >> could be an error. (...) > > Stefan Fritsch wrote: >> The documentation states: "Comments may not be included on a line >> after a configuration directive. " >> >> '#' signs are considered normal characters inside a directive, so a >> warning would not be appropriate either. But I agree that >> DirectoryIndex is not behaving correctly here. > > It's actually used in default configuration: > $ grep -e '^[[:space:]]*[^#[:space:]].*#' /etc/apache2/*/* > /etc/apache2/mods-available/autoindex.conf: IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# RCS CVS > *,v *,t > /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/autoindex.conf: IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# RCS CVS > *,v *,t > > > Would checking only in DirectoryIndex for a local-url starting by # make > sense? > Should that bug be tagged wontfix? Or retitled as suggested? > The original request doesn't make much sense, as it would always generate > false > positives.
(Wow, I hadn't thought about this bug in... about eight years.) It would seem that Apache is treating the #index.php as a partial URL, that is a bare page fragment, and thus re-expanding the URL internally to itself... and thus hitting the redirect limit. Does a bare fragment ever make sense as a DirectoryIndex target? If not, then mod_dir should be squawking about this at the start, and 'apache2ctl -t' should warn about it (just in DirectoryIndex directives). I haven't checked to see if the bug is still present in the 2.4 series. pacem in terris / мир / शान्ति / سَلاَم / 平和 Kevin R. Bullock -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
