-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 December 2001 12:22 am, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Jim Bija wrote: > > I gues i have a question in here too, does the version that comes > > with redhat 7.2 by default COMPILE require the trailing slash? > > No. Apache *always* requires the trailing '/' character. When apache > receives a request for a directory without a trailing slash, it > generates a 301 responce to indicate that the web browser look > elsewhere. In this case, the browser will be handed a URL containing > the hostname that apache got from it's config and the path with the > slash appended. This will fail if your hostname isn't configured > correctly. If your machine doesn't resolve your 127.0.0.1 to your > hostname, then set ServerName in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.
You beat me to answering this one, so I'll just provide the proof. ;) xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [04/Dec/2001:13:35:59 -0500] "GET /rpms HTTP/1.1" 301 335 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [04/Dec/2001:13:36:00 -0500] "GET /rpms/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2050 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901" The browser asked for http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rpms, got a 301 error, and immediatly asked again, including the trailing slash. This is on a clean install of 7.2, using apache as provided by Redhat. Note that the user was not required to provide the trailing slash, the browser added it. > That's not distribution specific. Your advise came from elitists. > Elitists are morons. Agreed. > All non-Red Hat distributions suck ;) How.... Elitist. ;) (I agree here as well, of course.) - -D - -- pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/pgpkey.txt - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8EFjKeMAUbzJhSVcRAvgHAKCHuu7wIeSyYUvCrSVnGstzqtULPgCfXM2h pazncn9p/N8bvhhnDa4qQFo= =hY48 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
