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Apache 2.0.46 and 2.0.49 problem with large directory indexes
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| Daniel DuBois 2004-04-11, 4:31 pm |
| I have been running Apache 2.0.46 for a long time, but recently noticed a
problem with directory indexes. This behavior was seen with Internet
Explorer 6 (and with telnet); I don't have the ability to try other
browsers. The problem is this: some directories index, link, display, etc.
all normal. Other directories do not work. It appears to be that the
directories with a larger number of files (over 90-ish?) are the problem.
When viewing these problem directories Internet Explorer gives:
The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might
be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your
browser settings.
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Please try the following:
Click the Refresh button, or try again later..... etc.
To further debug the problem, I tried telneting directly to my web server,
typing in:
GET /baby/2004-03%20(Mar)/ HTTP/1.1
<enter>
and the results were:
BEGIN CUT N PASTE
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:54:04 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.49 (Win32)
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Ind
ex of /baby/2004-03 (Mar)</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Index of /baby/2004-03 (Mar)
</h1>
<pre><img src="/icons/blank.gif" alt="Icon "> <a href="?C=N;O=D">Name</a>
<a href="?C=M;O=A">Last modified</a> <a href="?C=S;O=A">S
ize</a> <a href="?C=D;O=A">Description</a><hr><img src="/icons/back.gif"
alt="[
DIR]"> <a href="/baby/">Parent Directory</a> -
<im
g src="/icons/image2.gif" alt="[IMG]"> <a
href="IMG_1098.JPG">IMG_1098.JPG</a>
02-Mar-2004 21:11 64K
..... YADA YADA YADA ....
<a href="IMG_1323.JPG">IMG_1323.JPG</a> 03-Apr-2004 17:27 144K
<img src="/icons/image2.gif" alt="[IMG]"> <a
href="IMG_1326.JPG">IMG_1326.JPG
</a> 03-Apr-2004 17:27 157
Connection to host lost.
END CUT N PASTE
So you can see from the abnormal termination of the HTML, the socket
connection is being cut off before the entire index is sent. I cannot
venture a guess as to why this might be.
You can experience the problem for yourself at:
http://ddubois.bounceme.net/baby/
I tried uninstalling 2.0.46 and reinstalling with version 2.0.49, but there
was no change in behavior at all. I also tried doing some goggle searches,
and tried poking around the apache.org site, but I could not find anyone
referring to this problem anything similar. I have no idea what to do now,
please help.
Thanks,
Dan
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| "Daniel DuBois" <ddubois@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:85pd70h1shu86f3rp5jq9v6im2v44ctlt3@
4ax.com...
> I have been running Apache 2.0.46 for a long time, but recently noticed a
> problem with directory indexes. This behavior was seen with Internet
> Explorer 6 (and with telnet); I don't have the ability to try other
> browsers. The problem is this: some directories index, link, display,
etc.
> all normal. Other directories do not work. It appears to be that the
> directories with a larger number of files (over 90-ish?) are the problem.
> When viewing these problem directories Internet Explorer gives:
> The page cannot be displayed
> The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site
might
> be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your
> browser settings.
>
[snip]
That is a weird problem. It is definitely an IE issue because Foxfire list
that all with no problems. I'm not sure what is going on, but as a work
around I'd use the "SuppressIcon" option in the IndexOptions line. I don't
like the icons anyways. In fact, this is the options I use:
IndexOptions FancyIndexing FoldersFirst SuppressDescription SuppressIcon
NameWidth=*
I think they look cleaner that way.
Rach
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| Daniel DuBois 2004-04-11, 4:31 pm |
| On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:57:23 -0700, "rach" <duzfaq64@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>That is a weird problem. It is definitely an IE issue because Foxfire list
I can't disagree with this statement if it worked in Foxfire (which I
assume is another browser), but the problem was visible when I telnetted
directly into the port.
>IndexOptions FancyIndexing FoldersFirst SuppressDescription SuppressIcon
>NameWidth=*
This indeed did fix, or at the very least mask, the problem. I send you my
mother's thanks.
-----
Daniel DuBois
(808) 486-2940
ddubois@pobox.com
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| Joshua Slive 2004-04-11, 4:31 pm |
| Daniel DuBois <ddubois@pobox.com> wrote in message news:<85pd70h1shu86f3rp5jq9v6im2v44ctlt3@4ax.com>...
> I have been running Apache 2.0.46 for a long time, but recently noticed a
> problem with directory indexes. This behavior was seen with Internet
> Explorer 6 (and with telnet); I don't have the ability to try other
> browsers. The problem is this: some directories index, link, display, etc.
> all normal. Other directories do not work. It appears to be that the
> directories with a larger number of files (over 90-ish?) are the problem.
> When viewing these problem directories Internet Explorer gives:
> The page cannot be displayed
This looks alot like the following bug-report:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9512
which tells you to read this:
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/#xpbug
Joshua.
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