Apache trailing slash - was web server permissions

[Bill Moran]

Jay O'Brien <jayobrien at att.net> wrote:
> Jay O'Brien wrote:
> 
> >  changing the links to add a trailing / "fixed" the 
> > problem, and if I didn't want to use existing web pages with shortened 
> > relative links without the trailing / character, it wouldn't be a 
> > problem. 
> > 
> > I would like to understand what is causing this to work the way it is.
> 
> I now understand it is either an Apache problem, perhaps 
> related to the fact I'm using an IP number as ServerName, 
> not a URL, and perhaps related to the fact that I'm behind 
> a NAT firewall (linksys router) that passes port 80 to my 
> FreeBSD machine on 192.168.1.9. 
> 
> What's happening is that the client on the internet is being 
> redirected to the 192.168.1.9 address, not to the IP number 
> in the ServerName line in httpd.conf. That works fine on my 
> LAN, but not out on the internet.
> 
> Google returns hundreds of answers for apache "trailing slash", 
> and I'm following up.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated, but as this is clearly not 
> a FreeBSD problem, I'll drop the issue here until I find a 
> solution.

Is IE involved in this anywhere?

I've noticed that IE tends to have problems with certian URLs.
The "trailing slash" issue sounds familiar as an IE problem (although
I'm not sure).

Have you tried other browsers from the location that doesn't work?

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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