Site5, the trailing slash issue

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Anyone with a hosting service from Site5 could have this problem: when you have your web application in a directory symlinked, like

  ~/public_html/webapp -> ~/apps/webapp

when accessing to the URL http://yourdomain.com/webapp you will have an error (Bad Request). But if you add the trailing slash to the URL, everything will work fine. After some digging in Site5 foruns, I resolved the problem by creating a file, named 400.shtml, placed in the public_html directory, with the following content:

  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
  <!--
  window.location="<!--#echo var="REQUEST_URI" -->/";
  // -->
  </script>

Hope it helps.

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