On Oct 17, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org > sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that sub-directory by > following a chain of links titled "Parent Directory". > > That led to http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ whose first link is to > "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README"; [NOTE BENE quotation marks]. > > [...] > > I pointed my browser to "http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive"; and > got: > > I went back to the link triggering the "404 error" and added a trailing "/" > to the URL. It *then* displayed properly. > > Is this a typo or a server problem? > [ understand "STRANGENESS" in my Subject: line? ;] Both, potentially. The server SHOULD give you the directory with or without the trailing slash, but it seems it's configured such that if you don't have the trailing slash on the directory, it treats it as a file (which isn't there). I wonder if apache is doing some kind of directory-level virtualization, where it only "exists" if you have the trailing slash on the end (I don't know enough of the internals of apache2 to say one way or the other; but I have run into this with certain configurations of various FTP / SFTP implementations in "commercial" products for business communication). -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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