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

["Eric Arseneau" <eat@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Arseneau [mailto:eat@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 12:45 AM
> To: Julio López Garbayo (comercial); cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Having to add / at end of URL to get
> index.html to show
>
>
> 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
> >
> >