Apache question

[Adam McDougall]

What does it do instead of bring up the index.html?
I am pretty sure the Right Thing to Do is terminate all non-file url's
with a /, and it actually takes extra work if you dont, on the part of the
browser and the webserver.  Usually it will have trouble when you do this
if the hostname the webserver thinks it is does not resolve to the ip or
hostname that the client is supposed to actually use.
If you have multiple ip's on your server it will probably try to respond
with the "main" ip if you dont otherwise state something in the httpd.conf
 
Example:  http://www.blah.com/somedir
browser asks the server for the url
server says ?!?!?! "try http://server43.superhosting.com/somedir/"
(or "try http://hostname.myfakedomainnameIuseinternally.com/somedir/"
browser continues to pull up the wrong thing.

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Mike Szumlinski wrote:

> I just moved my old web page from afs on campus to my linux machine, but 
> for some reason my web server doesn't understand my code as well as pilot 
> did...which sounds dumb, so let me explain and see if anyone knows how to 
> fix it.
> 
> My code is written to look for directories, which default to a root 
> document (index.html), so say if you click on a link, it goes to 
> ../root/blah which should link to ../root/blah/index.html, which it did 
> on the afs space. However, Apache on my linux machine needs to have that 
> slash written in after blah to find the index.html file. Is there a way 
> to switch this so I don't have to go back and fix all the code I've 
> already written? 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Mike
> 
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