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From: Allan Lyons <admin@cbccts.sk.ca>
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Subject: Alias does not work exactly as expected
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>Number:         521
>Category:       mod_alias
>Synopsis:       Alias does not work exactly as expected
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May  1 14:50:01 1997
>Last-Modified:  Wed May  7 12:25:22 PDT 1997
>Originator:     admin@cbccts.sk.ca
>Organization:
>Release:        1.2b10
>Environment:
OS Linux 2.0.30 i486
gcc 2.7.2.1
>Description:
I am using Alias to give http: access to our locally available ftp
archive with the command:
     Alias /pub/ /home/ftp/pub/
Unfortunately, this will not work if the URL does not have a trailing '/'
http://host/pub   returns File Not Found
http://host/pub/  works as expected.
I feel that this is a bug because many users regard the trailing '/' as
optional.
>How-To-Repeat:
Set up Alias command
http://host/pub will not work
http://host/pub/  does work
(remember to clear local cache between tries if using Netscape, etc.)
>Fix:
Before returning File Not Found, check to see if the addition of 
a trailing '/' will make it a valid request.
%0
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed
State-Changed-By: dgaudet
State-Changed-When: Fri May  2 15:25:33 PDT 1997
State-Changed-Why:
Have you tried:

Alias /pub /home/ftp/pub/

?

Dean
State-Changed-From-To: analyzed-closed
State-Changed-By: dgaudet
State-Changed-When: Wed May  7 12:25:21 PDT 1997
State-Changed-Why:
The docs have been updated to make it clear that the trailing
/ on the fakename is significant.

Dean
>Unformatted: