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apache2 ReadmeName/README not being displayed

  • 01-11-2006 03:53PM
    #1
    laoisfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭


    hi

    am not sure if this is correct place to post this - if not can mod please move as appropriate? thanks.

    ok - have a sun4u-solaris10 (update1) system with apache2 installed.

    /etc/apache2/httpd.conf has ReadmeName set to README

    if i browse to a few locations (accessible by http) i set the directory listing but the README is not display. i have confirmed that there is a README in the locations i am browsing and that they are readable.

    anyone have any ideas? i checked to see if there were any bugs against this but only found one, not sure if it is relevent:

    http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21372

    i have tried README.txt, README.htm, README.html but to no avail. I check my mime-types and text/plain is set to "asc" and "txt"

    any ideas....please?

    thanks - laoisfan


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  • #2
    Rambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭Rambo


    laoisfan wrote:
    hi

    am not sure if this is correct place to post this - if not can mod please move as appropriate? thanks.

    ok - have a sun4u-solaris10 (update1) system with apache2 installed.

    /etc/apache2/httpd.conf has ReadmeName set to README

    if i browse to a few locations (accessible by http) i set the directory listing but the README is not display. i have confirmed that there is a README in the locations i am browsing and that they are readable.

    anyone have any ideas? i checked to see if there were any bugs against this but only found one, not sure if it is relevent:

    http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21372

    i have tried README.txt, README.htm, README.html but to no avail. I check my mime-types and text/plain is set to "asc" and "txt"

    any ideas....please?

    thanks - laoisfan


    The bug is for 1.3 Apache

    Try setting the
    ReadmeName set to README.html
    save conf file restart apache

    Remember to watch out for lower case and upper case.


  • #3
    laoisfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭laoisfan


    thanks for that.

    if i set it to README.html or README.txt then it works fine. i will go with README.txt as then people can just create plain text files and not have to worry about extra html etc.

    i did a global find on all README files and just copied them to README.txt for the time being - at least they will be visible when browsed now.

    but i am still curious as to why README is not being displayed!!! hmmmm


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