Hmmm, two answers for the price of one. Add the trailing-slash

  caviat to the docs.  Now to backport this better explanation to 1.3.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@89105 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/conf/httpd-std.conf b/docs/conf/httpd-std.conf
index bd1559ff39206337b6e5bbcde56d80726cc3dace..597b977226675e62cd68d8cac5a3e124e021ea66 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/conf/httpd-std.conf
+++ b/docs/conf/httpd-std.conf
@@ -464,7 +464,9 @@ ServerSignature On
 #
 # Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will
 # require it to be present in the URL.  So "/icons" isn't aliased in this
-# example, only "/icons/"..
+# example, only "/icons/".  If the fakename is slash-terminated, then the 
+# realname must also be slash terminated, and if the fakename omits the trailing 
+# slash, the realname must also omit it.
 #
 Alias /icons/ "@@ServerRoot@@/icons/"
 

diff --git a/docs/conf/httpd-win.conf b/docs/conf/httpd-win.conf
index 17343ac3b176e4d6df46c9ccd0b121ab7aff1e75..fffa3e600becbd699e1c4eb34fb50f5c900da262 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/conf/httpd-win.conf
+++ b/docs/conf/httpd-win.conf
@@ -406,7 +406,9 @@ ServerSignature On
 #
 # Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will
 # require it to be present in the URL.  So "/icons" isn't aliased in this
-# example, only "/icons/"..
+# example, only "/icons/".  If the fakename is slash-terminated, then the 
+# realname must also be slash terminated, and if the fakename omits the trailing 
+# slash, the realname must also omit it.
 #
 Alias /icons/ "@@ServerRoot@@/icons/"