Topic: Strange problem with trailing slash at the end of an url

[TimoP]

hello everyone,
i am new here in the forum. i am using the apachelounge build on my win box.

i installed it with the fcgid_module.

i have noticed, when i add a slash at the end of an url that contains a php script name, then the page layout is destroyed (e.g. http://localhost/index.php/).

when i type in the url normally without the trailing slash (e.g. http://localhost/index.php), the page displays normally.

i think i have misconfigured the fcgid module? or is this a php programming knowledge lack from myself?

on this site i cannot see this behaviour.
when i add a slash to this url: http://www.apachelounge.com/profile.php?mode=editprofile/ the page displays as i expect.

what do i am wrong?

[James Blond]

That is about your paths in the html and css
use absolute paths and this won't happen. Start your path with a slash. e.g.

/images/img.jpg

The Browser takes the slash after the index.php as a new folder. So if you images are in images the browser tries to get http://localhost/index.php/images/img.jpg instead of localhost/images/img.jpg

[TimoP]

ahhh, thank you very much mr. blond. i thought, i drilled a security hole ala directory traversal in my server config or so *facepalm*

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