[lug] Strange Apache VirtualHost behavior

Tue Nov 23 23:50:38 MST 2004

David Morris wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:24:15PM -0700, Lee Woodworth wrote:
> 
>>You fixed it? I just looked at
>>    http://david.morris-clan.net/foo (no trailing slash)
>>and it redirects to
>>    http://david.morris-clan.net/foo/
>>which has cats.html in it.
> 
> 
> Now that is odd because it does *not* do that for me.
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> What web browser are you using?   I wonder if perhaps
> Mozilla/Firefox aren't sending the right information.
> 
> --David

I used Firefox 1.0 release, but through apache 2.0.48 acting as a proxy. 
It looks like firefox may have added the trailing slash. The access log 
entry from the proxy (when the browser address didn't have the trailing /):

     10.0.0.1 - - [23/Nov/2004:22:52:18 -0700]
          "GET http://david.morris-clan.net/foo/ HTTP/1.1" 200 954

Using nc from netcat (bypasses the proxy, no request headers sent):

     # nc david.morris-clan.net 80
     GET /foo HTTP/1.0

     HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
     Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:20:52 GMT
     Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2
     Connection: close
     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

     <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
     <HTML><HEAD>
     <TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE>
     </HEAD><BODY>
     <H1>Not Found</H1>
     The requested URL /foo was not found on this server.<P>
     <HR>
     <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.26 Server at morris-clan.net Port 80</ADDRESS>
     </BODY></HTML>

Did you just add a manual redirect? I am now getting (added the HOST 
header, previous request didn't have it):

     # nc david.morris-clan.net 80
     GET /foo HTTP/1.0
     HOST: david.morris-clan.net

     HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
     Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:40:50 GMT
     Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2
     Location: http://david.morris-clan.net/foo/
     Connection: close
     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

     <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
     <HTML><HEAD>
     <TITLE>301 Moved Permanently</TITLE>
     </HEAD><BODY>
     <H1>Moved Permanently</H1>
     The document has moved <A 
HREF="http://david.morris-clan.net/foo/">here</A>.<P>
     <HR>
     <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.26 Server at david.morris-clan.net Port 
80</ADDRESS>
     </BODY></HTML>