Answer the (single most?) common FAQ of trailing slashes on Aliases

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x@89104 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/conf/httpd.conf-dist b/conf/httpd.conf-dist
index 8bfe50452d6f0cd45cbd13a702c4c56eb14f4554..a3c1a89932c225ae9f6e7a8921be17094bd82b45 100644 (file)
--- a/conf/httpd.conf-dist
+++ b/conf/httpd.conf-dist
@@ -525,6 +525,9 @@ ServerSignature On
 #
 # Aliases: Add here as many aliases as you need (with no limit). The format is 
 # Alias fakename realname
+# If fakename is slash-terminated [the alias is only found when the request is
+# slash-terminated] then the realname must be slash terminated, if the fakename
+# omits the trailing slash, the realname must also omit the trailing slash.
 #
 <IfModule mod_alias.c>
 

diff --git a/conf/httpd.conf-dist-nw b/conf/httpd.conf-dist-nw
index 52b9e048bf918557ecf267f305a924d66a570147..18642a72af36929bca266324c9c74c14729c919a 100644 (file)
--- a/conf/httpd.conf-dist-nw
+++ b/conf/httpd.conf-dist-nw
@@ -459,6 +459,9 @@ ServerSignature On
 #
 # Aliases: Add here as many aliases as you need (with no limit). The format is 
 # Alias fakename realname
+# If fakename is slash-terminated [the alias is only found when the request is
+# slash-terminated] then the realname must be slash terminated, if the fakename
+# omits the trailing slash, the realname must also omit the trailing slash.
 #
 <IfModule mod_alias.c>
 

diff --git a/conf/httpd.conf-dist-win b/conf/httpd.conf-dist-win
index bb8556544e21b87c05773a9e871dfa138eaaa76a..3612314f8f4c3bafda389aaa8240911e439f42d2 100644 (file)
--- a/conf/httpd.conf-dist-win
+++ b/conf/httpd.conf-dist-win
@@ -528,6 +528,9 @@ ServerSignature On
 #
 # Aliases: Add here as many aliases as you need (with no limit). The format is 
 # Alias fakename realname
+# If fakename is slash-terminated [the alias is only found when the request is
+# slash-terminated] then the realname must be slash terminated, if the fakename
+# omits the trailing slash, the realname must also omit the trailing slash.
 #
 <IfModule mod_alias.c>