On Thursday 09 September 2004 18:31, JoeHill wrote: > On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 18:19:03 -0400 > > JoeHill disseminated the following: > > > Does anyone happen to know what needs to be configured in Apache so > > > that the trailing "/" doesn't need to be in a URL in order for the page > > > to load? > > > > > > currently, if I type in http://www.mysite.org/mypage, I get an error > > > message saying that I don't have access to /mypage. > > > > > > If I type in http://www.mysite.org/mypage/ the page loads just fine. > > > > > > Any ideas on how to fix this? > > > > You need to have a default page to load, probably. Should be called > > 'index.html', off the root of the server, ie. /var/www/html/index.html > > (or .php or whatever). > > ...sorry, not off the root of the server...me not reading good :-\ > > The thing is, http://www.mysite.org/mypage is looking for a page to load > called 'mypage', which of course does not exist, it's a directory. Loading > www.mysite.org automagically looks for 'index.html' or the like, but as > soon as you add a dir off the root, you need to add that trailing /. I'm > not sure this is something to be 'fixed', I believe it is normal behaviour. > > Blast me to hell if I am wrong ;-) Read about trailing slash at http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_dir.html.en#directoryslash
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