[GRASS5] Some strange HTML online output

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:11:23PM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> 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,

perfect solution:
http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/html/p.map.html

Thanks for the quick help to you and the others.
Multi-language support is not yet implemented (hi, volunteers).

Thanks,

 Markus