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Tuesday March 30, 2004
10:55 AM
Stupid Things To Put In http.conf
(Number 1 in an occasional series)
It's counter-intuitive if a 500 error makes your web server direct to a non-existant domain
ErrorDocument 500 http://foo.example.com/cgi-bin/tester
That had me puzzled for a while. The main page of the site is index.cgi and it kept trying to redirect me to foo.example.com.
I wasted time checking for mod_rewrite rules before simply searching http.conf for a string containing the bogus server address.
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did u uncomment it? (Score:1)
pretty common one to do but isn't this commented out by default? meaning someone had to uncomment it?
bootload [netspace.net.au], groking softwa
Re:did u uncomment it? (Score:2)
In my experience, the commented-out line is
Returning a redirection to another server when an error occurs is bizarre. Have you really seen it in a default configuration, even commented out?
Re:did u uncomment it? (Score:1)
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