config/838: page access

["Michael S. Howard" <mh...@lerc.nasa.gov>]

>Number:         838
>Category:       config
>Synopsis:       page access
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache (Apache HTTP Project)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul  8 05:40:01 1997
>Originator:     mhoward@lerc.nasa.gov
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.2
>Environment:
SunOS gigahertz 5.5 Generic_103093-06 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCclassic
>Description:
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not but here's the problem.

If I try to access the page say for example:

http://gigahertz.lerc.nasa.gov/~mallman

from within lerc.nasa.gov, the server sends
the index.html file from mallman's ~/public_html directory.

It adds a / at the end after loading:

http://gigahertz.lerc.nasa.gov/~mallman/

If I try to access the page from outside of lerc.nasa.gov
using:

http://gigahertz.lerc.nasa.gov/~mallman

I get an access error but if I try to access it from outside of
lerc.nasa.gov using:

http://gigahertz.lerc.nasa.gov/~mallman/

I can access that page?

In my httpd.conf file I saw:

# For /~username/
UserDir public_html

I changed it to: 

# For /~username
UserDir public_html

and restarted the server but it made not change.

Here is the the rest of httpd.conf:
---------------------------------------------------------------
# Can be standalone or inetd 
ServerType standalone
 
# Port number to run the server on
Port 80
 
# User and group for server. VERY IMPORTANT
User nobody
Group nobody
 
# Server information
ServerAdmin root@gigahertz.lerc.nasa.gov
ServerName gigahertz 
ServerRoot /usr/local/apache
 
# Logging
ScoreboardFile /usr/local/apache/logs/apache_runtime_status
ErrorLog /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
TransferLog /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
PidFile /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid
 
# For /~username
UserDir public_html
 
# Config files
TypesConfig mime.types
AccessConfig /dev/null
ResourceConfig /dev/null
 
DocumentRoot /export/home/www
DirectoryIndex Welcome.html index.phtml index.html index.htm index.cgi
FancyIndexing on
 
Alias /icons/ /usr/local/apache/icons/
AddIcon /icons/movie.xbm .mpg .qt
AddIcon /icons/binary.xbm .bin
AddIcon /icons/back.xbm ..
AddIcon /icons/menu.xbm ^^DIRECTORY^^
AddIcon /icons/blank.xbm ^^BLANKICON^^
DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.xbm
 
ReadmeName README
HeaderName HEADER
 
IndexIgnore */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README*
AccessFileName .htaccess
DefaultType text/plain
 
AddEncoding x-compress Z
AddEncoding x-gzip gz
 
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/
 
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml
AddType application/x-httpd-serverpush .sp
AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi
AddType application/x-httpd-phtml .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-imap .map
 
<Directory /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>
 
<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews IncludesNOEXEC
AllowOverride Limit AuthConfig
<Limit GET>
order deny,allow
deny from none 
allow from all 
</Limit>
</Directory>
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>How-To-Repeat:
Yes see the URL's mentioned in the Full description
>Fix:
NO

Thank You
Michael S. Howard
mhoward@lerc.nasa.go
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: