On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:50:54PM -0400, Joshua Slive wrote: > On 10/5/05, John Oliver <joliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I just set up a directory on an existing website and copied some files > > into it. While the first file was copying, I looked at the directory > > with a browser, and it showed the first file. After all of the other > > files are done copying, though, it still only shows that first file... > > I've shift-refreshed, used different browsers, etc. Permissions on the > > files are exactly the same, 644 Why on Earth would the web server > > (2.0.49, BTW) "remember" the first file and refuse to recognize the > > others? > > Rather old version. You should upgrade. Yeah, yeah, yeah... :-) > > Oh, and if I put the full path > > http://web.server/directory/name-of-invisible-file in the browser, I can > > download the file in question. But it still doesn't show up in the > > directory list in the browser. There are no errors in the error_log. > > Are you sure the requests are actually hitting the server, and not a > cache (ie, does the access log show the requests with a 200 status)? Yes. ww.xxx.yyy.zz - - [05/Oct/2005:10:55:17 -0700] "GET /bgi/ HTTP/1.1" 401 491 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7" ww.xxx.yyy.zz - - [05/Oct/2005:10:55:25 -0700] "GET /bgi/ HTTP/1.1" 200 701 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7" ww.xxx.yyy.zz - - [05/Oct/2005:10:55:25 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 299 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7" BTW, what the heck is favicon.ico? Browsers are always requesting it, and it has never existed. Google tutns up not a single mention of the failure to get it. [Wed Oct 05 10:55:25 2005] [error] [client ww.xxx.yyy.zz] File does not exist: /home/www/default/favicon.ico > Do the files in question match any IndexIgnore directives? No. [root@host root]# grep Ignore /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf # IndexIgnore is a set of filenames which directory indexing should ignore IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t [root@host root]# ls -l /home/www/default/bgi/ total 7596468 -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 431697920 Oct 1 11:24 backup-bin-2005-10-01.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 612043489 Oct 1 11:25 backup-conf-2005-10-01.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 6727428943 Oct 1 11:39 backup-ispman-2005-10-01.tgz -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx