[GRASS5] Some strange HTML online output

[Glynn Clements]

Glynn Clements wrote:

> > while looking at the HTML man pages:
> > http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/html/p.map.html
> > http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/html/p.map.new.html
> > 
> > some strange output occurs:
> > Menu for /gdp/html_grass5/html/p.map.html
> > 
> >           html
> > [an internal server error occured] 
> > 
> > Obviously these pages are treated as something different
> > (PHP?). 
> > 
> > Any ideas to solve this? The HTML code is o.k., I think.
> 
> It doesn't matter whether or not the HTML code is OK. Even if you give
> a ".html" extension to a file of completely random binary data, it
> shouldn't cause an internal server error.
> 
> My suspicion is that the server has been configured to treat any
> filename which contains[1] the string ".map" as a server-side image
> map.
> 
> [1] as opposed to ending in ".map".

Yes and no.

Yes: the server treats p.map.html as in imagemap (mod_imap).

No: you don't actually have to do anything special to get this
behaviour. I have exactly the same problem here, with a default Apache
1.3.14 setup.

The Apache documentation mentions the problem:

	http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html#multipleext

I found that adding:

	AddHandler default-handler .html

to httpd.conf solves the problem, although it *might* interfere with
other uses of multiple extensions, e.g. as multi-language support (I
don't have anything like this here to test with).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>