local document access via HTTPD?

[it Force <it...@rediffmail.com>]

there is this setttings in my httpd.conf for allowing access
to the documentation

#
# Allow access to local system documentation from
localhost
#
Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/
<Directory /usr/share/doc>
     order deny,allow
     deny from all
     allow from localhost .localdomain
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

but when i try
http://localhost/doc/

it gives me the partial list  (and acts as if its yet
loading)...but the browser then hangs and fails to respond
to anything.

i then have the kill the process of the browser? why? and
how to get rid of this problem?


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Re: local document access via HTTPD?

[Owen Boyle <ob...@bourse.ch>]

it Force wrote:
> 
> there is this setttings in my httpd.conf for allowing access
> to the documentation
> 
> #
> # Allow access to local system documentation from
> localhost
> #
> Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/
> <Directory /usr/share/doc>
>      order deny,allow
>      deny from all
>      allow from localhost .localdomain
>      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> </Directory>
> 
> but when i try
> http://localhost/doc/
> 
> it gives me the partial list  (and acts as if its yet
> loading)...but the browser then hangs and fails to respond
> to anything.
> 
> i then have the kill the process of the browser? why? and
> how to get rid of this problem?

As an aside, remove the trailing slash from the Alias directive - it
limits the aliasing (see the docs for this directive for details).

However, that is not your problem...

- what happens if you try to get a specific file, e.g.
http://localhost/doc/index.html?
- what happens when you access the directory via the command line? e.g.

# telnet localhost 80
GET /doc/ HTTP/1.0
<return><return>

Rgds,

Owen Boyle.

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