Help with Apache

[Mariano]

I have the following simple problem with apache runnign under w2k. I have a directory 
under c:\program files\apache\htdocs\ called
shop. the thing is when i point to http://myserver/shop i get 404, but if i try 
http://myserver/shop/ it works ok. what shou i do to make the first way work. 
thanks in advance
mariano