Re: [SLUG] Can't seem to get DirectoryIndex to work in Apache 2.0

[Michael Lake <Mike.Lake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Lake wrote:
> Problem:
> I can't get http://localhost/kid/ to serve out 
> http://localhost/kid/index in Apache 2.0
...
> The error log shows when I access http://localhost/kid/
> "Attempt to serve directory /home/kiddev/asf-kid/html/"

This will close this thread. The prob was indeed a problem of mod-perl2 + apache2.
This summarises the problem: http://www.wlug.org.nz/SargeApache2Notes
The fix is in amoung this long thread: 
http://www.spanner.org/lists/mod_perl/2005/04/27/12c49991.html

Basically for version 1.999 of mod_perl with apache2 the DirectoryIndex directive is 
broken. Apparently perl gets the request for the directory before mod_dir gets a 
chance to tack on index onto the end of it. The fix is that you have to load your own 
directoty handler into mod_perl by placicing a small perl script in a directory and 
loading it from the apache2.conf file.

It only took me a few weeks to figure all this out. Once I did that my system now 
works fine.

Mike
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