> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Ward [mailto:gward@mems-exchange.org]
> Sent: 12 October 2001 14:23
> To: quixote-users@mems-exchange.org
> Subject: Re: [Quixote-users] puzzled by trailing / in URL
>
>
> On 12 October 2001, Ray Drew said:
> > running quixote 0.41 on win nt4, apache 1.3, mod_python
> >
[...]
>
> > /qdemo/12/ works but /qdemo/12 doesn't. (there are further
> options after 12,
> > so to be consistent, shouldn't /qdemo/12 work like /qdemo does?)
>
> That's odd -- it works for me, either with CGI or FastCGI.  In
> particular, /q/12 issues a redirect to /q/12/.  Your assumption that
> /q/12 should work just like /q is correct, and in fact it
> does work that
> way.  Or it least it's supposed to.
>
> How does it work when you run the demo as a CGI script?  Again, this
> might be a mod_python thing, or a mod_python-under-NT thing.
>

I couldn't get this to work at all with cgi but I worked out why it wasn't
working under mod_python - The demo location match in web-server.txt is

which I cut and paste into my apache http.conf. When I changed this to
^/q(/|$) to match the default URL_PREFIX everything worked fine.

Thanks,

Ray Drew
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