after installing or upgrading to apache 2.0.47, the online manual no longer is served properly via http. the problem appears to be related to changes in how the default language stuff works in the new version. you can reach the main page via /manual/index.html.en, but you always have to add .en to each subsequent manual page url. i asked about this on the apache development list, and got the following response: -----(snip)----- From: Joshua Silve <joshua@slive.ca> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, jake buchholz wrote: >> one of the things that's struck me as odd is that by going to >> http://localhost/manual, it's responding with... >> >> URI: index.html.de Content-Language: de Content-type: text/html; [etc.] >> ...instead of realizing that my default language is 'en' and showing me >> /manual/index.html.en Yes, you need to have something like the configuration attached below (which is part of the default config in 2.0.47). I guess is was a mistake to make this drastic a change to the manual in midstream, but it is done, so we need to live with it. AliasMatch ^/manual(?:/(?:de|en|fr|ja|ko|ru))?(/.*)?$ "@exp_manualdir@$1" <Directory "@exp_manualdir@"> Options Indexes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all <Files *.html> SetHandler type-map </Files> SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/de/ prefer-language=de SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/en/ prefer-language=en SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/fr/ prefer-language=fr SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/ja/ prefer-language=ja SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/ko/ prefer-language=ko SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/ru/ prefer-language=ru RedirectMatch 301 ^/manual(?:/(de|en|fr|ja|ko|ru)){2,}(/.*)?$ /manual/$1$2 </Directory> -----(snip)----- FWIW, I have not yet had the chance to apply the above to verify if it fixes the problem...
ok, if you verify it, then i can at least plan to merge this change into the gentoo apache config file. thanks.
Had the same problem. I fixed this by renaming *.html files to *.html.var since they are content-negotiated. This is how the html document root test page is setup. Using the default configuration, apache2 doesn't understand how to look at *.html file for this info, just *.var files. commonapache.conf defines this with: # AddHandler type-map var Renaming all thost files is a pain without a script, but I just ran this on the problem directories (/manual, /manual/mod, etc....) #rename .html .html.var *.html
i suppose i might just rename the manual files in the src_install. the config snippet suggested seems tailored to the manual anyways, so... sound ok?
Use this little code snippet to change all the files ending in JUST .html to .html.var. It's cruel and dirty, but it works since they don't use spaces in the filenames. :) cd /home/httpd/htdocs/manual for name in `find . | grep '.html$'`; do echo "$name" "$name.var" ; done
actually im going to add the config snippet, probably today or tomorrow look for the new release. thanks a bunch jake.
config snip added in 2.0.47-r1
