Re: general/1186: If I don't specify the .html or .htm extension for the HTML pages, when trying to show a page with the server, the server cannot find the page.

[James Sutherland <ja...@dux.dundee.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997 04:05:54 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>Synopsis: If I don't specify the .html or .htm extension for the HTML pages, when trying to show a page with the server, the server cannot find the page.
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>State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
>State-Changed-By: Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org
>State-Changed-When: Wed Oct  1 04:05:53 PDT 1997
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>Uhm... I don't understand your problem.
>You cannot access pages without an extension?
>If you want a page without an extension to be transmitted
>with a "text/html" content-type you have to use the
>DefaultType directive...
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>Severity-Changed-From-To: critical-non-critical
>Severity-Changed-By: Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org
>Severity-Changed-When: Wed Oct  1 04:05:53 PDT 1997
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I have had exactly this problem with my (Apache) server when I
upgraded from the CERN daemon. Apparently, if you had a file:
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/uodhome.html
then the URI
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/uodhome
would give the same results with CERN - but not Apache. (Reasonable,
as the latter is wrong, but the users complain...) Including
mod_speling fixes this, along with making URI's case-insensitive, but
so does telling people to get the URI right.

That should solve the problem - it did for me.