httpd "trailing slash" redirect in Apache/2.0.46

[Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 4)]
[Linux 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux]
[Server version: Apache/2.0.46]

Accessing http://localhost/index works ok.
Accessing http://localhost/ does not work:

404 Not Found - The requested URL /index was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Server at localhost Port 80.

error_log reads:
[error] [client 127.0.0.1] Attempt to serve directory: /var/www/html/

$ apachectl configtest
Syntax OK

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_dir.html says the
DirectorySlash Directive is available in version 2.0.51 and later.
Should I upgrade?

Snipped relevant sections from httpd.conf:

LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
DirectoryIndex index index.html

The file /var/www/html/index exists and is readable.

Please help me point out why "trailing slash" redirect does not work.

--
S.T.

"Sigurd Trygg" <sigurdtrygg@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<1113989347.582362.169170@l41g2000cwc.googleg roups.com>...

> Accessing http://localhost/ does not work:
>
> 404 Not Found - The requested URL /index was not found on this server.
> Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Server at localhost Port 80.

I initially though this was an isolated Apache problem, but it seems
to point to my use of HTML::Mason (1.28) and mod_perl (1.99_09).

I think this is a issue with HTML::Mason and mod_perl, since httpd
redirects fine when I comment out the following lines from httpd.conf:

# PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
# PerlRequire /var/session_handler.pl
# <Location />
# SetHandler perl-script
# PerlHandler SessionHandler
# </Location>

It turned out it the trailing slash redirect worked if I in httpd.conf
replaced "Location" with "Directory", and added a RewriteRule to
handle trailing slashes:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /$ / [L]
RewriteRule /(.*)/$ /$1/ [L]

<Directory "/var/www/html">
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler SessionHandler
</Directory>

BTW, I'm using CGI.pm (3.07) on perl 5.8.0.

Thanks to Paolo Campanella and others on
Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=maso...3911911284&w=2

It seems the combination of the different versions of HTML::Mason,
mod_perl and httpd can bite your hand off. The Mason Wiki has some
clues for those who wonder:

http://www.masonhq.com/browse/all_nodes.html

--
S.T.