Hey Bill, it worked! Thanks a million! It was your second suggestion, with the trailing slash on "Alias" and no trailing slash on "AspNetMount" ... looks like it's running smoothly now!
thanks! On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:01:57 -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:12 AM 12/17/2004, Sean McCleary wrote: > >Hi all, question on config: > > > >The example docs say how to get ASPX files running in c:\StoreCSVS, > >and aliasing that to /Store/CSVS. > > > >And that works forme. > > > >So uh... what if I want my ASPX files to just be in the "/" directory? > > i.e. I want people to get to http://myhost/index.aspx . > > > >I've tried Aliasing "/" to "c:\StoreCSVS", AspNetMounting "/" to > >"c:\StoreCSVS", and setting my DocumentRoot to "c:\StoreCSVS" but it > >doesn't work. Should it be? Do I always need to have some kind of > >prefix in the URI, like "http://myhost/ASPXFilesGoHere/index.aspx";? I > >think I am not understanding something. > > First, Apache alias directive requires that you slash terminate > both the origin and target, e.g. / to /foo/. Aliasing / to /foo > means that /bar -> /foobar, not /foo/bar as you would be proper. > > Second, AspNetMount does some tricks to strip off the trailing > slashes. What I believe happened is that we stripped the one > and only slash from the origin URI, which is not cool. > > Try > > Alias / "c:/StoreCSVS/" > AspNetMount / "c:/StoreCSVS/" > > -or- > > Alias / "c:/StoreCSVS/" > AspNetMount / "c:/StoreCSVS" > > and in the meantime, I'll investigate. > > There is some trickery, in the ASP.NET core code, where it tries > to access the base directory by name. It seems (IIRC) that the > trailing slashes were a bad thing when initializing the host, > because it confounded ASP.NET's introspection of the base > directory itself. > > Bill > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
