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[1ronman]

Hi I am running apache and need to have a subdirectory of one of my sites called "manual"

so http://www.whatever.com/manual

However this redirects me to the Apache manual page, I've had a bit of a poke around to try and disable this but I can't seem to find the right config file / line to change.

If it matters I am running Plesk on a Suse Enterprise Server.

Any help would be much appreciated

[webcertain]

are you looking in httpd.conf ?
its normally somewhere like /usr/local/apache/conf or /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

there'll be an entry in there for whm that is doing the redirect

[1ronman]

That is where I have been looking, but there is no mention of "manual" and I can't see anything that could be redirecting it. It has all my other vhosts & redirections which make sense but I can't see how the /manual directory is being redirected.

Is there anywhere else it could be?

[TowerOfPower]

Check under /etc/httpd/ for a file that contains a URL /manual Alias line.

On my Windows install [Apache v2.2] it's file C:\www\Apache22\conf\extra\httpd-manual.conf

#
# Provide access to the documentation on your server as
#  http://yourserver.example.com/manual/
# The documentation is always available at
#  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/
#
# Required modules: mod_alias, mod_setenvif, mod_negotiation
#

AliasMatch ^/manual(?:/(?:de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|pt-br|ru))?(/.*)?$ "D:/www/Apache22/manual$1"

<Directory "D:/www/Apache22/manual">
    Options Indexes
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

    <Files *.html>
        SetHandler type-map
    </Files>

    SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/(de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|pt-br|ru)/ prefer-language=$1
    RedirectMatch 301 ^/manual(?:/(de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|pt-br|ru)){2,}(/.*)?$ /manual/$1$2

    LanguagePriority en de es fr ja ko pt-br ru 
    ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
</Directory>

[webcertain]

ah, yes, httpd.conf may include other files, and it could be part of those.

you could do a

grep "manual" *

in the conf folder, that would show you any files in the folder with that string in, but that might give you a lot of output.

[1ronman]

Thanks to all for the help, I will give your suggestions a try and get back to you. Apart from being annoying in this case, I guess having the manual enabled could also be considered a security risk so is all the more reason to get rid of it?

[david510]

The site is getting redirected, as there is a global Alias for manual. Override it by adding an additional line in the virtual host entry of the domain and restart apache.