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Date: 20 Oct 1997 05:10:00 -0000
From: Andrew Hougie <andrew@hougie.co.uk>
Reply-To: andrew@hougie.co.uk
To: apbugs@hyperreal.org
Subject: Default index file is not served/DirectoryIndex directive is ignored
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>Number:         1266
>Category:       os-windows
>Synopsis:       Default index file is not served/DirectoryIndex directive is ignored
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 19 22:20:00 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:  Wed Oct 22 05:52:28 PDT 1997
>Originator:     andrew@hougie.co.uk
>Organization:
>Release:        1.3b2 for Win95/NT
>Environment:
Windows 95 - I'm using the precompiled version for Apache 1.3b2, 
Apache32_1_3b2.exe.
>Description:
The DirectoryIndex directive seems not to work on Windows95.  Having installed 
Apache and ran it on my PC ("pentium" on my LAN):

     http://pentium/index.htm works
     http://pentium/ gives a "Not Found" message.

Similarly 
     http://pentium/home/index.htm works
     http://pentium/home/ gives a "Not Found" message.

My access.conf file includes:

     <Directory e:/localweb/hougie/htdocs>
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
     </Directory>

My srm.conf file includes:

     DocumentRoot e:/localweb/hougie/htdocs
     DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html

My error_log includes:
[Sun Oct 19 17:34:50 1997] [error] (2)No such file or directory: File does not exist: e:/localweb\hougie\htdocs\

and my access log includes
194.112.38.163 - - [19/Oct/1997:16:57:12 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 404 5979  <== I have an ErrorDocument
194.112.38.163 - - [19/Oct/1997:16:57:20 +0100] "GET /index.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 11194
194.112.38.163 - - [19/Oct/1997:17:34:50 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 404 5901
194.112.38.163 - - [19/Oct/1997:17:35:00 +0100] "GET /index.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 11117
194.112.38.163 - - [19/Oct/1997:17:40:30 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 404 5901

I though this looked like I must have made a configuration error, so I posted 
a message in Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows (message-ID: 
<344b6254.25450662@news.dircon.co.uk>).

Bill Waldron (wjw@nospam.bwaldron.com) posted a follow-up message 
(Message-ID: <62e520$fa4@nntp02.primenet.com>):
>How-To-Repeat:
Sorry pentium is not available to the Internet (I'm on a dial-up line and when I'm 
online WinGate refers http requests to my linux box (running Apache 1.2).
>Fix:
N
>Audit-Trail:
Category-Changed-From-To: mod_dir-os-windows
Category-Changed-By: pcs
Category-Changed-When: Tue Oct 21 05:37:44 PDT 1997

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: pcs
State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 22 05:52:28 PDT 1997
State-Changed-Why:
This is fixed for the next release of Apache on Windows 
95/NT.

>Unformatted:
>I'm seeing the same thing on my WIndows 95 machine; using essentially the 
>same config files on my NT 4.0 machine, all is working well. 

which gives me enough confidence to suggest it's an error in Win95.

I guess there may be some significance in the fact that the error log shows 
e:/localweb\hougie\htdocs\, although the DocumentRoot directive shows
e:/localweb/hougie/htdocs.  

The readme file includes 
Known Problems
--------------
- On Windows 95, there seems to be a problem spawning cgi scripts, since
Windows 95 seems to require \'s in the path (unlike NT, which accepts /'s).

Maybe this is another aspect of the same problem?