Sounds like you might have multiviews option enabled. Read here for more about it:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_negotiation.html#multiviews http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#options Try disabling that and see if it works. Regards, Bradley C Bailey > Please excuse me if this question has already been answered, or is > ludicrously simple to fix. I couldn't find it in the FAQ or mailing list > archives, and I'm new to Mason, trying to admin a webserver using Mason > code that was originally written by someone else. > > Anyway, my issue is thus - The site in question uses many webpages that > have perl code embedded using mason. All works fine if the pages are > linked to correctly, e.g. www.blah.com/search.html (not a real page, > obviously) The code can execute, the page is displayed correctly, and > you must login using a valid username and password (obtained via radius, > if it matters) to view the page. However, if you miss off the file > extension and try to browse to www.blah.com/search then things get > interesting. The page is displayed as part perl source (within Mason '<' > '>' tags which are also displayed, as if the page has not been parsed > but instead just displayed as plain text), part parsed HTML, so text > boxes and such appear. You don't need to login to get to this > source-code page either. The behaviour I would have expected would be to > display a 404 error page as the file couldn't be found. > > Some poking has suggested that this is the result of something being > done by mod_rewrite within Mason. mod_rewrite has no configuration in > the base apache webserver, and turning the RewriteEngine off makes no > difference to the issue, but if I prevent the module from being loaded > *at all* then the site breaks entirely, and starts giving 500 Server > Errors in response to any page requested (all of which contain code run > via Mason). There is no file present in the directory called simply > 'search', so it's not like it's loading that. I can't work out why I'm > not getting the expected 404 error, and was wondering if anyone else had > experienced the same thing and found out why it was occurring. > > Many Thanks > > -- > Dan Meyers > Network Support > Lancaster University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
