[opencms-dev] Trailing slash required for directory problem

[Jonathan Woods]

I have a mod_rewrite-based site, with code based loosely on Sebastian
Himberger's solution, and I don't have a problem.  At least,
folder-resolving URLs without a trailing slash still reach the right
content, though I notice now that no redirect happens.  Clearly this isn't
great, and I guess it only works because all URLs returned by my site are
absolute.

Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Christian Steinert
Sent: 28 September 2006 10:15
To: joe at galway.net; The OpenCms mailing list
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Trailing slash required for directory problem

Joe Desbonnet schrieb:
> I notice from my logs I'm getting some 404s for URLs that correspond 
> to directories (but with the tailing slash missing).
>
> Say you have http://www.mysite.com/about/index.html
>
> In Apache you would expect the following URLs to work:
> 1.  http://www.mysite.com/about/index.html
> 2.  http://www.mysite.com/about/
> 3.  http://www.mysite.com/about   (via automatic redirect to
> http://www.mysite.com/about/)
>
> However scenario #3 does not work in the standard OpenCms + Apache 
> configuration. It just results in a 404 error.
Yes, I definitely have the same behavior. This has not been a problem for
me, but Opencms just doesn't seem to recognize this.

Possible workarounds that come to my mind are:
- use static export and serve the exported files through apache
- implement a 404 - handler that checks if the "missing" resource is
actually a folder and redirect to the folder's index page or to the folder
URL with an appended slash.

And of course, if this causes trouble for you, you could report this as a
bug.

christian