[Techtalk] Re: Directory handling with apache server

[Berenice Chong]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, John Clarke said:

<snip> the slash is needed for the browser to build the correct url. 
> if you type in the url:
>
>    http://kirriwa.net/john
>
> the server (apache) knows that /john is a directory, but the
browser
> doesn't.  a relative url within /john/index.html, e.g.:
>
>    <p><a href="photos/index.html">Photos</a></p>
>
> has to be converted into an absolute url by the browser. 


Hi John, and thanks for the explanation. So just to make sure I
understand correctly: apache knows /john is a directory (and not a
document) by using stat()?

> without a trailing slash, it will strip "john" and add 
> "photos/index.html", giving "http://kirriwa.net/photos/index.html" 
> which is incorrect, but the browser doesn't know that because it
has > no idea that "/john" is a directory.
<snip>

Ok I think I got this bit :)  So if the URL is
http://kirriwa.net/john
the server should redirect the browser to http://kirriwa.net/john/  ?

Thanks
Berenice



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