[Summary-Talk] Re: trailing slashes on files that should be listed as

["Mac OS X Server Administrator" <macosxserveradmin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Jason,

Did turn out to be spurious requests in the logs. I let the
coincidence of their appearance on the same day I upgraded misdirect
my thinking. Sorry about that.

On 06/06/06, Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Those requests must be showing up in the log file with trailing slashes.
> I would count that as a bug in your web server. A request with a
> trailing slash is a directory, which is counted as a page request by
> default. You could reconfigure what kind of request directories get
> counted as, but you probably have some real directories that you still
> want to be counted as pages. You need to find out why your web server is
> logging those requests with the trailing slash in the first place.
>
> I would not expect graphics to appear in the Downloads section. They
> should appear in the Graphics section.
>
> It is best to list .css as a graphic request. .css files are embedded in
> pages similar to the way graphics are, so the paths report will be most
> accurate if you configure them to be graphics. (This is the default in
> Summary.)
>
> Jason
>
>
> Mac OS X Server Administrator wrote:
> >
> > On :8000/~clientname/overview/2 I'm getting spike reports indicating
> > "Possibly related to requests '/assets/swf/masthead.swf/' (+292/+125%)
> > and '/assets/css/stylesheet.css/' (+224/+100%) based on pages."
> >
> > It's putting trailing slashes on file names, and on the "Pages"
> > portion of "Which content is popular?", it's listing these same files,
> > again with slashes after their filenames.
> >
> > Under  "Which content is popular?", "Downloads", it lists a number of
> > PDFs, but no graphic file-types.
> >
> > In the config, Request Types is set to correctly identify .swf as a
> > graphic (CSS isn't listed at all, since the config predates the site's
> > use of CSS by a wide margin).
>
> --
> Jason@xxxxxxxxxxx
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