[cobalt-developers] RE: [cobalt-users] Having to add / at end of URL to get index.html to show

["Eric Arseneau" <eat@xxxxxxx>]

Thank you Julio, I must say that this is the best explanation I have had of
this problem.  Debbie did try, but I must of had my dunce cap on.

So I did a little test, I tried netscape.  Well Netscape came back with an
error dialog saying that DNS could not resolve my server name, even though I
did not use the server name in the request, I used the IP.

So I then went into my hosts file, for the fun of it, and added the entry
for the server it was asking for.  And lo and behold, it WORKED.  So the
problem is as you say.

The question that needs to be asked is this, why does the redirect ask for
the server name, rather than the IP address specified in the original URL ?
I assume that it gets the server name from my configuration of apache ?

I did another test, I took the canonical option in httpd.conf and turned it
off, and everything is working fine, plus I get everything showing up the
way you would expect, with or without the '/'.  I can still get access to my
admin pages and everything else is ok.  So the question that begs to be
asked is, what do I lose with this option ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julio López Garbayo (comercial) [mailto:comercial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 4:37 PM
> To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; eat@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: cobalt-developers digest, Vol 1 #451 - 6 msgs
>
>
> On 20 Jan 2001, at 12:03, cobalt-developers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Message: 6
> > Reply-To: <eat@xxxxxxx>
> > From: "Eric Arseneau" <eat@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:13:11 -0800
> > Subject: [cobalt-developers] Having to add / at end of URL to
> get index.html to show
> >
> > I'm not sure this is the right list for this question, but here goes.
> >
> > For some reason if I do the following
> > 	http://myip/ericsworld
> > I get an error, but if I do the following
> > 	http://myip/ericsworld/
> > The RaQ 3 goes ahead and gets the index.html that is in the
> directory and
> > displays it fine.
> >
> > Did anyone else have this problem, if so how did you fix it ?
>
> When you type http://yourip/ericsworld your browser sends a HTTP
> request like:
>
> GET /ericsworld HTTP/1.0
> Host: yourip
>
> and then, if ericsworld is a directory, receives a 404 (not found)
> answer, so tries to get it as a directory:
>
> GET /ericsworld/ HTTP/1.0
> Host: yourip
>
> If it does not work, it could be due to:
> 1. A bug in your browser. Very unlikely, specially if it browses
> correctly other websites.
> 2. A missconfiguration in your server. You probably set a
> 'ErrorDocument 404' directive in your httpd.conf or .htaccess that is
> not handling correctly the 'not found' exception (that is, it does not
> include a '404' header in the answer). This is very unusual with
> Apache, unless you are using a .php, .cgi or .asp as
> 'ErrorDocument 404'.
>
> I suggest that you comment any ErrorDocument directive and
> restart Apache.
>
>
> Julio López Garbayo
> http://puntoycoma.net
>
>