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>From: Anthony Niesz <ynot@frylin>
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>Subject: Re: #6783 OS X Server: making a final slash automatic in resolving URLs
>Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 19:42:19 -0400
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My son Tony Niesz who works at Apple as one of their system administrators
recommends the following solution:
Tony Niesz, Yale University
>
> Yeah, this is a weirdness in Apache. There are a couple of ways to resolve
> it, but actually, if you think about it, the server is acting correctly.
>
> The URL http://www.language.brown.edu/CZH is looking for the *file* CZH in
> the root directory of the http://www.language.brown.edu/ server. Clearly,
> that file doesn't exist since CZH is actually a directory. Thus, it errs.
>
> The URL http://www.language.brown.edu/CZH/ is telling the server to look in
> the CZH directory for the default file, specified in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
> as index.html.
>
> Ok, so technically it's behaving correctly, but we want it to be more
> forgiving than the standard dictates.
>
> One solution is specified in
> /Library/Documentation/Services/apache/mod/mod_dir.html on any Mac OS X
> machine.
>
> If mod_dir is enabled in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf it will add a trailing
> slash redirect to any existing directory's index file if left off.
>
> Here's how to do it:
> From the Terminal, assuming you have Admin access to the server(comments
> are denoted by #):
>
> Username% sudo -s #acquire superuser status. The prompt
> changes to root#
> Password: <password> #authenticate
> root# cd /etc/httpd/ #switch to the configuration file dir.
> root# emacs httpd.conf #edit the file in emacs
> ^s mod_dir # ^ means ctrl # search for the string
> mod_dir uncomment the first line where it appears # ie delete the # sign
> ^s mod_dir # search for the string mod_dir
> uncomment the second line where it appears # ie delete the # sign
> ^x^s #save the file
> ^x^c #quit emacs
> root# apachectl graceful #restart the webserver
> root# exit #it's hazardous to stay in root mode
>
> That should do it, if it doesn't you could brute-force it by using
> mod_rewrite /Library/Documentation/Services/apache/mod/mod_rewrite.html
> But that's more complex.
>
> One more thing:
>
> The error message that was received seems to imply that either a proxy or a
> virtual domain is being used to serve http://www.language.brown.edu/CZH/
> since port 16080 is not the usual port for a webserver. This may make
> things more complex, since virtual domains can have their own configuration
> sections in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf, but the basic principles are the same.
> One merely needs to make sure that the changes are applied every place they
> are relevant.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Tony
>
> > ----- Forwarded message from LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
> > ----- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:06:50 EDT
> > From: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: Language Learning and Technology International Information
> > Forum <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: #6783 OS X Server: making a final slash automatic in resolving
> > URLs
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> >
> > --- Forwarded Message from David Kanig <[log in to unmask]> ---
> >
> >> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:57:51 -0400
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> From: David Kanig <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Subject: OS X Server: making a final slash automatic in resolving URLs
> >
> > We're running a Mac OS X Server 10.1 on which web service has been
> > configured to automatically append "index.html" to the end of any URL
> > request which comes in without a file name at the end. While this
> > works as expected for addresses which end in a slash, it is not
> > working for URLs which don't end in a slash. For example:
> >
> > http://www.language.brown.edu/CZH/ correctly resolves to:
> > http://www.language.brown.edu/CZH/index.html . However,
> >
> > http://www.language.brown.edu/CZH only yields error messages:
> > "Netscape is unable to locate the server LangLabServer 16080"
> > and similarly, IE reports: "The specified server could not be found."
> >
> > Can anyone suggest what the problem might be?
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > David
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
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