[WEB4LIB] Re: Webserver: Multiple Choices

[D. Keith Higgs]

This is, of course, assuming that your sysadmin has not disabled the use
of .htaccess files because - since most people don't know Jack
-you-know- about these things they are likely to mess things up or
create a data security problem.

Keith
D. Keith Higgs <mailto:dkh2 at po.cwru.edu>
 Case Western Reserve University
  Webmaster - University Library
  Additional Information at http://www.cwru.edu/UL/

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Chris Gray
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 03:39 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Webserver: Multiple Choices


You want the ErrorDocument directive for Apache which can be set in the
server config file per directory or virtual host or can be set that
.htaccess.  The documentation is at
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#errordocument> and
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/custom-error.html>.

Chris Gray
Library Systems
University of Waterloo


On Thu, 2 May 2002, Bob Jones wrote:

> 
> Our campus Linux Apache webserver (which the Library uses) has 
> recently been upgraded.  The campus administrators have intentionally 
> set it so that if a document is not retrievable (previously 404 - not 
> available) a screen displays multiple choices (status 300) of 
> documents with close or variant spellings.  For a number of reasons we

> don't want this behavior in the library Web tree.
> 
> 1.  Can someone tell me which configuration variable sets this 
> behavior.
> 
> 2.  Is there a way to turn it off at the directory level?  If this can

> be done through an .htaccess file, please help me with the syntax.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Bob Jones
> 
> Robert P. Jones, M.S.L.S.
> Head, Library Public Services & Library Systems
> Thomas G. Carpenter Library
> University of North Florida
> Library - Building 12
> 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road, South
> P.O. Box 17605
> Jacksonville, FL   32245-7605
> bjones at unf.edu     Telephone 904-620-2552  FAX 904-620-2719
> 
> 
>