[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#445459: lighttpd: mod_alias fails on localhost

[Steve Greenland]

On 24-Oct-07, 09:41 (CDT), Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On 10/24/07, Steve Greenland <steveg at moregruel.net> wrote:
> > If I access 'http://localhost/nagios2/', I get a 404. If I access
> > 'http://speedy.moregruel.net/nagios2/', it works fine. Using IPs instead
> > of names makes no difference: using 127.0.0.1 fails, while 192.168.1.2
> > works.
> 
> Both attempts were from localhost? Or is the second attempt from another host?

Yes. All from the same browser on the machine where lighttpd is running
(locally known as "speedy"). It's repeatable, and doesn't depend on what
order things are done in.

> I didn't know that and I'll probably forget again. I used the reportbug tool.
> It's a bad design indeed.

One trick is that you don't have to go look at the submitter's address,
you can use '123456-submitter at bugs.debian.org'.

Steve


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