Strange redirect when missing trailing slash

I have approx. 60 domains hosted under one cPanel account on a leased
dedicated server (CentOS 4.4 i686, Apache 1.3.37). So there is a
parent domain, and the rest are subdomains of the parent domain.

directory structure in of public_html is like this:

/public_html/html of parent domain
/public_html/domain1/html of domain1
/public_html/domain2/html of domain2

.... and so on.

So "domain1.com" is technically "domain1.parentdomain.com"

If I go to "domain1.com/folder/" (with a trailing slash), everything is
fine.
If I go to "domain1.com/folder" (without a trailing slash), I am
redirected to domain1.parentdomain.com/folder/ (with a trailing slash).

So apache checks to see if "/folder" is a file or a directory, sees
that it is a directory, then does a 301 to "/folder/" (with a trailing
slash), and the domain part gets rewritten into the subdomain format.

In my searching for a resolution, I've noticed other people referring
to these settings in httpd.conf:

UseCanonicalName = on
ServerName = www.parentdomain.com

If you'd like to see this all in action, check out
www.cuppys.com/encyclopedia/. If you remove the trailing slash, you
will be redirected to cuppys.medinaenterprises.com/encyclopedia/

Is there maybe a rewrite rule I could use to subvert this?

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>I have approx. 60 domains hosted under one cPanel account on a leased
> dedicated server (CentOS 4.4 i686, Apache 1.3.37). So there is a
> parent domain, and the rest are subdomains of the parent domain.
>
> directory structure in of public_html is like this:
>
> /public_html/html of parent domain
> /public_html/domain1/html of domain1
> /public_html/domain2/html of domain2
>
> ... and so on.
>
> So "domain1.com" is technically "domain1.parentdomain.com"
>
> If I go to "domain1.com/folder/" (with a trailing slash), everything is
> fine.
> If I go to "domain1.com/folder" (without a trailing slash), I am
> redirected to domain1.parentdomain.com/folder/ (with a trailing slash).
>
> So apache checks to see if "/folder" is a file or a directory, sees
> that it is a directory, then does a 301 to "/folder/" (with a trailing
> slash), ...
That's mod_dir doing its job
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod...directoryslash

> ... and the domain part gets rewritten into the subdomain format.
Wonder whether 'UseCanonicalName = off' may solve that
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod...ecanonicalname

> If you'd like to see this all in action, check out
> www.cuppys.com/encyclopedia/. If you remove the trailing slash, you
> will be redirected to cuppys.medinaenterprises.com/encyclopedia/
I guess there is some rewrite interfering with the request too.
Might look like
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^\.]+).com$
RewriteRule (.*) /%1$1 [PT,QSA]

> Is there maybe a rewrite rule I could use to subvert this?
Show us the current rules and conditions first.

HansH

> > ... and the domain part gets rewritten into the subdomain format.
>
> Wonder whether 'UseCanonicalName = off' may solve that
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod...ecanonicalname

Well, I turned it off and it seems that my problem is resolved...

I'll need to contact the sysad who compiled this machine to make sure
there wasn't a good reason for having it turned on.

Thanks for the suggestion Hans!