From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 02:56:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16228 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 02:56:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA16223 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 02:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zWHSn-0003nK-00; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:55:25 +0200 Message-ID: <19981022115525.B14541@cityip.co.za> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:55:25 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Jerry , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need a / after a domain? Mail-Followup-To: Jerry , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jerry on Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 10:02:45AM -0400 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 at 10:02 SAT, Jerry wrote: > > I know I saw this question on the list not to long ago but I just can't > remember the fix. After the domain name in a browser you must use a / or > the site won't open. Where is this configuration changed? Does that happen with all sites or only specific ones? The handling of the missing trailing slash is a server issue. The server should know that when a user requests a file that turns out to be a directory, it should issue an error 301 ("permanently moved") and redirect the browser to the index file within that directory. -- V Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message