VanLUG Email Archive
Mike Bell (athasian@altavista.net)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:13:51 -0700
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 07:28:46PM -0700, Randall Clark wrote:
> I was able to access my users dirs off one of my linux webservers using
> this;
>
> http://www.domainname.com/~username
>
> now I can only access it this way ( Notice the " / " at the end.
>
> http://www.domainname.com/~username/
>
> What gives?? is their a way to fix this ??
Well, the address without the / isn't really valid, but the webserver is
usually smart enough to send back to the client that the address really ends
in a slash, then the client tries again with the slash. BTW, this slows
things down so always try to put a slash at the end of such URLs, especially
in hyperlinks. Anyway, something is preventing the server from being able to
rewrite the URL, probably it doesn't know it's own name or something like
that.
-- Mike Bell
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