[olug] [ot] Apache and IE

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Mike Hostetler <hostetlerm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T
>  <jeffh at dundeemt.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Mike Hostetler <hostetlerm at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > I have a quasi-off topic question:
>  >  >
>  >  >  I have a site with Apache2 as the server.  Firefox and Safari
>  >  >  recognize the DirectoryIndex file but IE6 and IE7 completely ignore
>  >  >  it.
>  >  >
>  >  >  My DirectoryIndex call looks like:
>  >  >  DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm
>  >  >
>  >  >  but IE still ignores it.
>  >  >
>  >  >  anyone seen this before?  And, better yet, know how to fix it?
>  >  What does apache say they are requesting and what does apache return?
>  >  What do you want it to be (html,php or htm)
>  >  That is strange, as I use Apache2 and DirectoryIndex .  Are you using
>  >  VirtualHost?
>
>  I am using a VirtualHost, but I have quite a bit of control
>
>  Hey, I didn't think about checking the access_log.
>
>  When I try with IE, it says:
>   [12/Mar/2008:10:14:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 404 82 "-" "Mozilla/4.0
>  (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
>
>  My Safari-based browser says the same thing:
>  [12/Mar/2008:10:16:25 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 103 "-" "Mozilla/5.0
>  (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/522+ (KHTML, like
>  Gecko, Safari/522) OmniWeb/v613.0.93354"
>
>  I want to be "index.html"
>
>
>  My .htaccess says:
>  DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm
>
>  And I know it works, because my mod_write stuff if working.
>
>  That's another thought -- if someone would give me mod_rewrite recipe
>  to redirect www.example.com to www.example.com/index.html, that would
>  work as well.  I just need it to work!
>
What if you specify www.example.com/index.html in the browser? does it
get the page or a 404?

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