-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 December 2001 06:32 pm, Jim Bija wrote: > OK, i think i have a handle on this one now guys. I believe what our > problem is as someone said a hostname problem of some sort. Ill put > out what ive seen newbie style and someone who knows linux can explain > it to all of us. By default install my hosts file was as such: > > 127.0.0.1 ns2 localhost.localdomain localhost > > this is a a ns2 server as well as www server, during install it asked > me my hostname i told it, it added it to 127.0.0.1 and ignored my > ethernet addrees (grumbles at redhat, this is a problem with your > install program no?) anyway, sometime down the line i noticed this > hosts file and thought, that just aint right so i changed it to > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 1.1.1.1 ns2 ns2.mydomain.com > > in my httpd.conf file the servername has untill tonight said > ServerName www.mydomain.com which is not the case in reverse DNS so i > changed it to ns2.mydomain.com (im slowly making things "correct") or > atleast i think i am.. > > This whole trailing slash thing came to me when someone said why doesnt > this page work www.my.com/~eddie > well someone told me that apache had recently made you put a trailing > slash on dirs for some security problem, i said fine and excepted it. [snip] > PS* If anyone knows how i fixed my having to put trailing /'s on URLs i > would like to know, k? ;) > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gordon Messmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > David~ > > > > Your server is probably configured incorrectly, similarly to Jim's. > > > > If you're looking for evidence of the problem, don't expect IE to > > hand it to you. Install ngrep or ethereal on the web server, and use > > it to watch the traffic on port 80. I expect that you will see a > > conversation like this: > > > > IE -> server > > Host: server > > GET /documents > > > > server -> IE > > 301 Moved > > Location: http://localhost.localdomain/documents/ > > > > The web server has told the client where to get the "documents" > > resource, but IE can't follow the instructions given, because they're > > wrong. > > > > Your web server must know its local host name. When you aren't doing > > name based virutal hosts, then you pretty much always have to set > > ServerName in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf There are a couple of possibilities here. I'll try to explain based on my network here. I have a single routable address, and an internal network. HTTP requests are forwarded from the external interface to a machine on the internal network. So: www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8000 is forwarded to 192.168.0.5, a machine known as enigma.local on my network. I set the ServerName directive on my webserver to: ServerName www.tuxfan.homeip.net If that were not set, error pages, info at the bottom of directory listings etc., would be listed as http://enigma.local/. So, if the ServerName directive wasn't set, and you requested: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rpms The server would reply: 301 Moved Location: http://enigma.local:8080/rpms/ Obviously, no client would be able to resolve this, and it wouldn't work. With it set, you instead get: 301 Moved Location: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rpms/ That's one possibility you might look at. Another is the UseCanonicalName directive. With this directive set to 'On' Apache will use the ServerName and Port directives when it needs to construct a self referencing URL. (As it must in the case of 301 errors) So, with this set to 'On' if I access my server on the local network using the address: http://enigma.local:8080/rpms, it will return a 301 error, and point me to: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rpms/. This would fail in my case due to firewall rules. If UseCanonicalName is set to 'Off', Apache will use the hostname:port that the client supplied, and I would be pointed to http://enigma.local:8080/rpms/ I don't recall the default setting for UseCanonicalName, but it's worth looking into. Hope that helps explain it a bit, - -D - -- pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/pgpkey.txt - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8EW+geMAUbzJhSVcRAmL/AKCN4i0RiQSmJzpkfHKyAvX99zDmlwCfc+ir zDta3WYj7MoyORbH5xRzc/o= =2PwX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
