traliing slash in URL path configuration

[Yao, Jack]

Thanks so much Gary. It is the answer to the whole traliaing slash thing.
UseCanonical directive has to be set to "off" in order to have the Alias
directive to work as it is configured, otherwise Apache will keep sending
the unknown URL to http://_default_/[directory]

Also thanks to everyone that have been very helpful to me as well.

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: Cook, Garry [mailto:GWCOOK at mactec.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 3 March 2004 2:14 AM
To: Yao, Jack
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] traliing slash in URL path configuration


Check the apache config file, 'httpd.conf', for a section on 'canonical
name'. I think this might be what you are looking for. 

nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Hi Karl  [and all others Nagios list Members],
> 
> Ah.. It is just not about how much workload server will have only, I 
> am afraid.  I am also curious that in nagios document, it states
> very clear
> that by changing the URL html path from "/nagios/" to be "/nagios" in
> cgi.cfg and make the Alias in httpd.conf to be without
> trailing slah as
> well. The browser should then accept the user to type
> http://mydomain.com/nagios  and redirect to
> http://mydomain.com/nagios/
> 
> But what happen to me now is that, after I have done all the changed 
> as described in the document, the browser still don't accept user to 
> type http://mydomain.com/nagios .  Whenever user types
> http://mydomain.com/nagios
> , it will reditect to http://_default_/nagios   and display "page
> cannot be display error, server not found.."
> 
> And browser still only accept user to type
> http://mydomain.com/nagios/   as
> if the changes in cgi.cfg and in httpd.conf did not have any effect at 
> all.
> 
> 
> I guess the 2 majot questions here are:
> 
> 1.  Do I miss any other part of configuration that might state 
> somewhere else in the document but I did not see it ?
> 
> 2. Or Does the document not cover everything as it should be ?
> 
> And I don't think it is Apache issue as the url 
> http://mydomain.com/nagios/ still works fine, so the Apache is 
> definitely working, as well as Nagios.
> 
> And I notice that you use the path in the Alias set up as Alias 
> /nagios /usr/share/nagios/ , while the one I am using now is Alias 
> /nagios /usr/local/nagios/share  , is that a typo or it is actually
> different path
> ???
> 
> 
> Any helps are really appreciated
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jack
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl DeBisschop [mailto:karl at debisschop.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2004 1:46 PM
> To: Yao, Jack
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] traliing slash in URL path configuration
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:00:41 +1100
> "Yao, Jack" <jyao at aav.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all ,
>> 
>> sorry that I have to keep asking the same question again. Basically , 
>> on Redhat 8.0 and Apache, I 've been trying to change the default URL 
>> from http://mydomain.com/nagios/
> <http://mydomain.com/nagios/>   to be
>> http://mydomain.com/nagios <http://mydomain.com/nagios>  .
>   And here
>> are the changed I've done so far , which still don't work by the way.
> 
> I use the RPM which (on FC1) puts nagios.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d so 
> it is automatically included in the httpd.conf file.
> 
> I changed
> 
> 	Alias /nagios/ /usr/share/nagios/
> 
> to
> 
> 	Alias /nagios /usr/share/nagios/
> 
> and restarted the server. Then I entered the URL
> 
> 	http://localhost/nagios
> 
> It automatically redirected to
> 
> 	http://localhost/nagios/
> 
> as expected.
> 
>> So basically it don't matter what I do to the file cgi.cfg and 
>> httpd.conf[and of course reload/restart the related services after 
>> the changes], the only URL that work is still the same one, so Is 
>> there anything else I am missing here ???
> 
> If http://host/nagios won't work, there's something else interfering 
> with you httpd config. Take it up with your local apache guru who
> probably knows
> your configs better than I do.
> 
> If you are expecting http://host/nagios to become the default URL, I 
> don't think you are ever going to get that. I believe that you only 
> get to completely drop the trailing slash when referring to a file, 
> not a directory. That is the reason that supporters of the
> bandwidth conservation
> movement advocate leaving the trailing slash in the configs
> - since the URL will redirect to include the trailing slash,
> you have force
> a redirect eating up bandwidth and response time. If you
> leave the slash in
> the configs, you force your documentation writers to use it
> and your users
> get faster responses while your server does less work. Of
> course, how you
> config your server is entirely up to you. But I'm pretty sure
> that without a
> rewrite rule, your default URL will retain the trailing
> slash, even when you
> accept input without the trailing slash.
> 


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