We see this enough that a warning would be appropriate I think.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:36 PM
Subject: I'd rather have bugs than this
> Here is a typical user error, probably the most typical info request on
> the ms-windows side of comp.infosystems.www.servers
>
> I'd proposed we add a test for the matching absence or presence of trailing
> slashes in all Alias and ServerAlias directives (non-regex) and emit a
warning
> that "Alias virtual and real path names must both include or both exclude
the
> trailing slash".
>
> The language is rough, and I could live with this an an error, or a warning.
>
> Comments? I can have a patch over the weekend for both 1.3 and 2.0.
>
> Bill
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: PhatRaptor
> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:17 PM
> Subject: problems getting alias to work
>
>
> I've just installed apache 1.3.19, there have been no previous
installations. The only thing I've change in the config file is the
> document root. I've also added a alias line but it dosn't work, nether does
the default 'icons' one. Heres what I've added:
>
> Alias ff/ "C:/My Documents/Final Fantasty IX"
>
> <Directory "C:/My Documents/Final Fantasty IX">
> Options Indexes MultiViews
> AllowOverride None
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> In my browser I'm typing: http://ts/ff (ts is my computer name)
> Anyone got an idea of whats wrong?
>
