Re: Serving UTF-8 filenames under Linux

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:23:41 +0000 (UTC)
anatoly techtonik <techtonikgmail.com> wrote:

> Where are setting for filename encoding used by Apache
httpd to find
> files with international symbols in their names?

What does the ErrorLog say when you get an unexpected 404?
Turn up the LogLevel if necessary.

> I need to serve files named in russian. I've
successfully setup
> Tomcat to do this using UTF-8 encoding, but static
resources are
> given out by Apache httpd on production server. Apache
receives UTF-8
> russian letters as two-byte sequences correctly as it's
seen in
> access logs, but fails with 404 to find them on disk.

I'm sure the russian apache folks who wrote mod_charset
(i.e. not
the mod_charset_lite bundled with apache) would know.  I
can't help,
because I wouldn't know a russian filename in the first
place.

> I've tried to rename files in different encoding with
no effect.
> Ideally I would like to make Apache threat all
filenames as UTF-8 Are
> there any settings? The version of httpd is unknown,
but seems to be
> latest from 1.3.x branch.

Find out with httpd -v.  If it really is 1.3 (which is from
1998),
it may be too old to do anything with.

-- 
Nick Kew

Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules
Book
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