On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Arvind wrote: > i was typing in my URL as http://www.foo.com/mydir > > and the page that was opening was > > http://www.foo.com/mydir/index.html > > now all of a sudden this has stopped happening and i have to necessarily > type in > http://www.foo.com/mydir/ (mind that slash in the end)
you probably don't have mod_dir when you type the url without the /, what happens is this: the browser makes a request to the server: GET /mydir HTTP/1.1 Host: www.foo.com Connection: close In case of mod_dir the server responds: HTTP/1.1 302 Page moved Location: http://www.foo.com/mydir/ Connection: close The browser makes a request to the server GET /mydir/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.foo.com Connection: close The server responds: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: close Content-type: text/html Your index.html file here If you don't have mod_dir, the first response would be a 404. The other possibility is that /mydir/ is an alias to another directory, and your alias specifies /mydir/ and not /mydir -- Progress means replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
