On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Jim Bija wrote:
> Untill redhat 7.2 they never had to add the trailing slash. Please explain.
When the server is configured correctly, it redirects the browser to the
correct URL. If a URL resolves to a directory, then it must end in a
slash to be valid. Therefore, when the browser asks for ~jim, the server
replies: "No, ask for ~jim/ and I'll think about it." The browser does.
Try this on any functioning web site. Point your browser at a dir without
a trailing slash, and notice that the URL changes before the page
displays. That's not browser magic... that's the server putting the
browser in its place. :)
> >From what you said it would appear that ALL redhat distros would make you
> add the trailing slash, that is not true in my experience from 5.2 to 7.1.
No, all Red Hat distro's apache requires a trailing slash on URL's that
resolve to directories. They don't, however, "make you add" it. The
server adds it when you are wrong.
I'm almost certain that the problem you are having is that the server
thinks its hostname is localhost.localdomain, and your browser can't load
the URL given as a 301. Fix this by setting "ServerName" in
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
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