Apache Related: "http://host/~user" instead of "http://host/~user/" ?

scrawl · 05-18-2003, 08:13 AM

I've been having a trial by fire introduction to Linux (Mandrake 9.1) over the past few days. The good news is, it's starting to makes sense.

I'm currently trying to setup Apache, particularly public_html folders for each of the user profiles.

When I browse "http://host/~username/", the uploaded website loads up with no problems.

However, when I browse "http://host/~username" (ie no trailing slash), I get a 404 error.

I thought it might have something to do with the User Dir init, so i experimented by changing it from:

UserDir public_html public_html

to

UserDir public_html public_html/

When doing so, the index.html file loads, but all the links and images are broken (they attempt to load from http://host/ as opposed to http://host/username

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Scrawl

trickykid · 05-18-2003, 10:23 AM

You probably need to have this turned on in the example below:

Code:

# UseCanonicalName:  (new for 1.3)  With this setting turned on, whenever
# Apache needs to construct a self-referencing URL (a URL that refers back
# to the server the response is coming from) it will use ServerName and
# Port to form a "canonical" name.  With this setting off, Apache will
# use the hostname: port that the client supplied, when possible.  This
# also affects SERVER_NAME and SERVER_PORT in CGI scripts.
#
UseCanonicalName On

scrawl · 05-19-2003, 12:02 AM

Thanks trickykid,

All is now good, much appreciated! Yet another thing to add to the mental note checklist

- Scrawl