Apache trailing slash puzzler

tantric · 03-18-2004, 09:34 AM

Hello

I am having a bit of head scratch,

I have an apache server and I can type in urls as this

whatever.domain.com/folder/

but not like this

whatever.domain.com/folder

I just never finds the page.

I have set up

Options Indexes

in the httpd.conf but it still doesnt work!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

trickykid · 03-18-2004, 09:50 AM

You need to enable Canonical in your httpd.conf file. Usually it should already be in the file by default, if not add something like this to your file and restart apache:

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

tantric · 03-18-2004, 04:13 PM

Ah, I didnt have the servername on, I was just accessing through an IP address, so that was the problem.

As soon as I put the Servername line in it worked

Guess I was fibbing about accessing from a hostname.

Thanks a lot for your help!

giluriel · 04-08-2004, 01:25 PM

Hi,

I had the same problem like most of us:
http://www.myserver.com/directory -

does not work
http://www.myserver.com/directory/ anoying.. but works

well...

I only changed "UseCanonicalName on" to "UseCanonicalName Off"

and .. now I'm smiling ...

:-)

leonbao · 04-11-2004, 04:18 PM

Now I'm smiling too...