DO NOT REPLY [Bug 30677] New: - trailing slash redirects shall affect aliases, too

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trailing slash redirects shall affect aliases, too

           Summary: trailing slash redirects shall affect aliases, too
           Product: Apache httpd-2.0
           Version: 2.0.50
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: mod_dir
        AssignedTo: bugs@httpd.apache.org
        ReportedBy: whitewolf_fox@gmx.de


Taken from the "Apache Module mod_dir" Documentation
(http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_dir.html):

#### Start quotation
"A "trailing slash" redirect is issued when the server receives a request for
URL http://servername/foo/dirname where dirname is a directory. Directories
require a trailing slash, so mod_dir issues a redirect to
http://servername/foo/dirname/."
#### Stop quotation

Again, taken from the "Apache Module mod_alias" Documentation
(http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html):

#### Start quotation
"Note that if you include a trailing / on the url-path then the server will
require a trailing / in order to expand the alias. That is, if you use Alias
/icons/ /usr/local/apache/icons/ then the url /icons will not be aliased."
#### Stop quotation

The only known workarround for this is to define BOTH: An Alias for
/icons
AND
/icons/

But even if you do so, apache tells something like the following when
started/stoped:

[root@machine root]# apachectl start
[Sun Aug 15 16:05:01 2004] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/httpd/aliases.conf
at line 2 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.

That's not very elegant, is it?
It's especially very discontenting, because the allready existing module mod_dir
shall solve exactly that problem, but is ignored for aliases.

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