>Number: 1266
>Category: mod_dir
>Synopsis: Default index file is not served/DirectoryIndex directive is
>ignored
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Sun Oct 19 22:20:00 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.3b2 for Win95/NT
>Environment:
Windows 95 - I'm using the precompiled version for Apache 1.3b2,
Apache32_1_3b2.exe.
>Description:
The DirectoryIndex directive seems not to work on Windows95. Having installed
Apache and ran it on my PC ("pentium" on my LAN):
http://pentium/index.htm works
http://pentium/ gives a "Not Found" message.
Similarly
http://pentium/home/index.htm works
http://pentium/home/ gives a "Not Found" message.
My access.conf file includes:
<Directory e:/localweb/hougie/htdocs>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
</Directory>
My srm.conf file includes:
DocumentRoot e:/localweb/hougie/htdocs
DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html
My error_log includes:
[Sun Oct 19 17:34:50 1997] [error] (2)No such file or directory: File does not
exist: e:/localweb\hougie\htdocs\
and my access log includes
194.112.38.163 - - [19/Oct/1997:16:57:12 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 404 5979 <==
I have an ErrorDocument
194.112.38.163 - - [19/Oct/1997:16:57:20 +0100] "GET /index.htm HTTP/1.0" 200
11194
194.112.38.163 - - [19/Oct/1997:17:34:50 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 404 5901
194.112.38.163 - - [19/Oct/1997:17:35:00 +0100] "GET /index.htm HTTP/1.0" 200
11117
194.112.38.163 - - [19/Oct/1997:17:40:30 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 404 5901
I though this looked like I must have made a configuration error, so I posted
a message in Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows (message-ID:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>).
Bill Waldron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted a follow-up message
(Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
>How-To-Repeat:
Sorry pentium is not available to the Internet (I'm on a dial-up line and when
I'm
online WinGate refers http requests to my linux box (running Apache 1.2).
>Fix:
N
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
>I'm seeing the same thing on my WIndows 95 machine; using essentially the
>same config files on my NT 4.0 machine, all is working well.
which gives me enough confidence to suggest it's an error in Win95.
I guess there may be some significance in the fact that the error log shows
e:/localweb\hougie\htdocs\, although the DocumentRoot directive shows
e:/localweb/hougie/htdocs.
The readme file includes
Known Problems
--------------
- On Windows 95, there seems to be a problem spawning cgi scripts, since
Windows 95 seems to require \'s in the path (unlike NT, which accepts /'s).
Maybe this is another aspect of the same problem?
