404 on Directory without forward slash

Rails
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Has anyone else encountered this problem? Railsplayground support are
looking into it but don’t know how to fix it either just yet.

Basically a directory sitting under public/ at public/my_things/ is
accessible via http://www.mysite.com/my_things/ but not
http://www.mysite.com/my_things (ie without the slash). it returns a
404.

from railsplayground:

"I could see that my_things is a folder under your public folder.
Usually, if it were a Rails Controller, your Rails application would
have taken care of the request. Since my_things is a normal folder, I
thought it has something to do with the canonical names. I tried to turn
off the canonical names in the apache configuration file. I even tried
with setting up redirections in the .htaccess file. But I couldn’t see
any difference. "

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On 2/25/07, Xia __ [email protected] wrote:

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Railsplayground support are
looking into it but don’t know how to fix it either just yet.

Basically a directory sitting under public/ at public/my_things/ is
accessible via http://www.mysite.com/my_things/ but not
http://www.mysite.com/my_things (ie without the slash). it returns a
404.

GIYF: googling for “apache trailing slash” returns numerous hits on
possible causes and solutions.

J.

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Jordan K. wrote:

On 2/25/07, Xia __ [email protected] wrote:

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Railsplayground support are
looking into it but don’t know how to fix it either just yet.

Basically a directory sitting under public/ at public/my_things/ is
accessible via http://www.mysite.com/my_things/ but not
http://www.mysite.com/my_things (ie without the slash). it returns a
404.

GIYF: googling for “apache trailing slash” returns numerous hits on
possible causes and solutions.

J.

yeah haven’t been able to get any of that working, neither could web
host. dirty html redirect has temporarily fixed the problem