Re: handling of the trailing slash

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

kris nelson wrote:
> Apache/1.3.26 + mod_perl/1.27
> 
> I've noticed that Apache alone appears to differ from one of my modules
> running under mod_perl in its handling of trailing slashes. I'm wondering if
> this is expected behavior and, if so, why? (Maybe this is obvious...)
> 
> For example: the file "news.html" exists in "/var/www/html/". I issue four
> requests to Apache alone, one for "/news.html", one for "/news", one for
> "/news/" and one for "/news.html/", and then the same four requests again,
> this time under mod_perl.
> 
> The second time, under mod_perl, I use a basic little module that simply
> records the value of $r->filename to the error log and then sends the
> contents of the file to the browser (after opening it with Apache::File,
> similar to the Ch. 4 Eagle book instructions). (No directory called
> "/var/www/html//news" exists, nor are there any symlinks involved.)
> 
> Here's a table of the results:
> 
> Apache
> -------
> /news.html	/news	/news/	/news.html/
> 200		200	404	404
> 
> 200 means success, data displayed was from "news.html". The error log showed
> that "/news.html/" was not found in the case of the 404s.
> 
> Apache+mod_perl
> ---------------
> /news.html	/news	/news/	/news.html/
> 200		200	200	200
> 
> 200 means success, data displayed was from "news.html", error_log recorded
> "/var/www/html/news.html" in all cases as the value of $r->filename (thanks
> to my little Perl module logging this value for me). In the cases of
> "/news/" and "/news.html/", my relative image links broke (for hopefully
> obvious reasons).
> 
> Is this expected behavior? Why? I would expect Apache and Apache+mod_perl to
> behave similarly. Am I missing something obvious? (Probably...)

It's hard to guess what your relevant configuration is. Care to send in the 
mod_perl and Apache sections? Including things like Multiviews Options, 
DirectoryIndex, etc.

Basically it all comes to the following logic: mod_perl sections inherit all 
the default Apache settings unless you've overriden them. And this is true for 
any other module, be it mod_perl or not.


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