From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 08:50:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13096 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uz.ComCAT.COM (uz.ComCAT.COM [204.170.64.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13091 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:50:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerryr@ComCAT.COM) Received: from uw.comcat.com (uw [204.170.64.249]) by uz.ComCAT.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8/sol2/mh/19980701) with ESMTP; id LAA22428; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:45:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by uw.comcat.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/sol2/clnt/19981012) with SMTP id LAA07663; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:45:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: uw.comcat.com: jerryr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:45:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry X-Sender: jerryr@uw To: Johann Visagie cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need a / after a domain? In-Reply-To: <19981022115525.B14541@cityip.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It happens with all sites. Just the domain name itself, personal user sites etc.. do you happen to know which apache file this is configured? Thanks! On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Johann Visagie wrote: > 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