Gordon Messmer wrote: > 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
I have always wondered why our intranet web server required the trailing /. I set the hostname using webmin-> default server-> network addresses and viola! Thanks Gordon, and to think that I was going to skip this thread due to the subject line. Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
