Can your Apache Server do this?

[Superwormy]

OK, the question goes out to ONLY people that have Apache www Server working on a home computer.

I need some help. I just need you to test whether or not a link in the following format works:

http://servernamehere/index.html/folderthatdoesnotexsist/


Notice that the URL is to a page, then with a directory AFTER it. A directory that DOESNT exsist.

If it works on your computer, I would REALLY REALLY appreciate it if you coudl send me the httpd.conf file from your apache installation, so that I can figure out how to get that to work on my home computer.

Thanks!

 

[Nothinman]

What do you expect to happen, I'm assuming not a 404 error.

 

[Superwormy]

Oh right heh... duh.

Right so ideally, it should ' Look-Back ' down the URL, so it won't find the nonexsistent directory, adn will instead bring you to index.html


So if you DON'T GET A 404 ERROR and you DON'T GET A 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR, I woudl appreciate a copy of httpd.conf!

PLEASE HELP!

 

[Nothinman]

I can't see it doing that without some special module or scripting (php, perl, etc).

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I can't see it doing that without some special module or scripting (php, perl, etc).

I agree. You could set up an ErrorDocument for 404, but that wouldn't necessarily work (maybe you could point it to '..'?)

 

[Moonbender]

Interestingly, my Apache does that for PHP files, but not for HTML files. Note that this is vanilla Apache + PHP, I didn't even touch the configuration files. Anyway, setting up an ErrorDocument shouldn't be too difficult, either - just make it analyze $_SERVER['PATHINFO'] and redirect to the first existing document.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: Moonbender
Interestingly, my Apache does that for PHP files, but not for HTML files. Note that this is vanilla Apache + PHP, I didn't even touch the configuration files. Anyway, setting up an ErrorDocument shouldn't be too difficult, either - just make it analyze $_SERVER['PATHINFO'] and redirect to the first existing document.

Thats a pretty cool idea... but what path info will it receive if it is your errordocument?

 

[Argo]

I know exactly what you're talking about. There are a couple of lines that do that, I remember seeing it on one of our servers at work. If you still need this tomorrow drop me a PM and I'll try to find it.

 

[Moonbender]

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: Moonbender
Interestingly, my Apache does that for PHP files, but not for HTML files. Note that this is vanilla Apache + PHP, I didn't even touch the configuration files. Anyway, setting up an ErrorDocument shouldn't be too difficult, either - just make it analyze $_SERVER['PATHINFO'] and redirect to the first existing document.

Thats a pretty cool idea... but what path info will it receive if it is your errordocument?

Good point. I checked that, and it turns out pathinfo doesn't contain any useful information, but instead there are new variables that you can use:
$_SERVER["REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES"] = File does not exist: l:/htdocs/sadjkga
$_SERVER["REDIRECT_REQUEST_METHOD"] = GET
$_SERVER["REDIRECT_STATUS"] = 404
$_SERVER["REDIRECT_URL"] = /sadjkga

Obviously, $_SERVER["REDIRECT_URL"] would be the one to use.

 

[Superwormy]

Anyone else... Argo I PMed you... did you get it?