Drinkingbird

Fix the Apache trailing slash problem

Posted by Chris Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:48:00 GMT

After a lot of stuffing about I finally found a solution to the problem that I was having with the URL for this blog.

The basic problem was that the link http://www.drinkingbird.net/blog (without the trailing slash) was being rejected with a 400 Bad Request error.

I spent ages trying to get this to work with awkward rewrite rules in the parent directory, when I should have been looking in the public directory of the rails app. The solution is well enough explained over at LavaFactory.

I just made one small refinement, which is to change:

RewriteRule .*/blog/(.*) http://www.drinkingbird.net/blog/$1 [L,R]

to

RewriteRule (.*)/blog/(.*) $1/blog/$2

to satisfy my relentless desire to avoid configuration tied to a particular domain.