https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56971
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |FIXED --- Comment #4 from [email protected] --- Thanks for your suggestions. Adding RemoveHandler .var to the <directory /home/*/public_html> section of httpd.conf appears to solve the problem. The need for this is somewhat troubling, as it appears to disable a standard feature of the apache web server. The "var" handler appears to be a default for apache httpd, and is defined in the default httpd.conf . The comments in our httpd.conf state: # For type maps (negotiated resources): # (This is enabled by default to allow the Apache "It Worked" page # to be distributed in multiple languages.) # AddHandler type-map var > All of the extension-based things in httpd consider all dot-separated things > as extensions. This is rather counter-intuitive, as using "." to delimit parts of a filename or directoryname is common usage for linux users. Httpd's treating all embedded periods (rather than just the last one) places unexpected restrictions on filenames for users -- not using a string anywhere in the filename that matches any filehandlers defined for their web server. One can hardly expect typical users to read and understand the httpd.conf file before deciding on filenames for files they want to publish on their web pages. This results in the type of problem we just encountered. In our case, there are important reasons for the user to have chosen her filenames the way she did -- using ".var.10." in the filename identifies the source of the data, following common file naming conventions used in our field of research. Please pardon my grumbles, and many thanks for your assistance. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
