[Techtalk] apache URL "look back"

Emma Jane Hogbin emmajane at xtrinsic.com
Wed Jun 18 21:41:58 EST 2003


On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:53:30AM +0200, Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:36:12PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> > http://megatron.utm.utoronto.ca/~cell/cell.php <-- this is a file
> > http://megatron.utm.utoronto.ca/~cell/cell.php/ <-- this gives 404
> 
> ...one more comment :) Just tried the above URL and saw that you're
> using Apache >2.0.30.  Starting with version 2.0.30 you need to set
> the AcceptPathInfo directive appropriately (on) for the "look back"
> feature (i.e. PATH_INFO) to work -- if it's off, you'll get 404s.
> Maybe that's the problem...

Thanks! I've passed the following URL on to the system administrator
(unfortunately I'm trying to install something on someone else's server).
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#acceptpathinfo

emma

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