Hi everyone,

I'm using apache 1.3.33 bundled in slackware-current and have encountered some strange behaviors regarding apache's trailing slash.

I have these things set:

ServerName www.servername.org
UseCanonicalName On

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride All
Options MultiViews Indexes Symlinksifownermatch IncludesNoExec
</Directory>

I can go to www.servername.org/test and it will redirect to www.servername.org/test/ (test is a directory)

Similarly, servername.org/test redirects to servername.org/test/.

However, servername.org/~username and www.servername.org/~username does not redirect to servername.org/~username/. I get the error: "www.hostname.domainname cannot be found. Please check the name and try again."

Yet, when I go to www.servername.org/~username/test, it does redirect to include the trailing /. Furthermore, servername.org/~username/test also redirects to www.servername.org/~username/test/ (it appended the www, or my specified ServerName.

I have done very little to modify the stock slackware httpd.conf file, only uncommenting the few lines that pertain to <Directory /home....> and Servername.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated. I hope I do not have to use mod_redirect; it seems extremely complicated for such a small, yet bizzare problem.

Thanks!

What is the hostname of the machine?

Somehow, strangely, I encounter this with Apache in Slackware and Mac Os X.

You can fix this by having hostname=servername.

I am sure there is other ways to fix this. Ummm.. maybe you can add the www.servername.org into /etc/hosts

IP.OF.SERVER.NAME www.servername.org #/etc/hosts entry