Posted by NC on 01/12/07 07:18

Sanders Kaufman wrote:
>
> I'm working on a webhost that seems to have an undocumented
> feature.

Or something in httpd.conf... What OS are you running?

> I inadvertently coded a link to "mydomain.com//" - with TWO
> trailing slashes.
>
> When I clicked the link, Apache returned this error:
>
> -+-+-+-+-+-+
> 403 Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access
> /cgi-sys/php-fastcgi//index.php on this server.
>
> You may need to create an index.html page or enable the
> directory browsing by creating an .htaccess file containing
> "Options +Indexes".
> -+-+-+-+-+
>
> I have a cgi-sys, but I have no idea what this "fastcgi" stuff
> is about.

Basically (and with a lot of oversimplification), it's plain old CGI
executable, but resident in memory, not loaded from disk at
every request and unloaded upon completion. For more
information, click around www.fastcgi.com...

> Anyone seen this before?

Nope. One of my sites runs on a FastCGI installation (FreeBSD
+ Apache); accessing http://www.mysite.com// just gives me
/index.php...

Cheers,
NC

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