[Lynx-dev] lynx not honoring apache document root path

[Hendrik-Jan Heins]

Hello list,

I just stumbled upon a really weird problem with lynx:
There is this website: http://linux-wless.passys.nl
If you go there with lynx, choose for instance the first brandname of
the list, and submit the query, you get an Apache2 error message of
the fact that the link you just requested, doesn't exist.

The weird thing is:
- the link does exist, and all other browsers I tried, do know how to
"find" it (firefox, seamonkey, konqueror, elinks, links).
- lynx is looking for the file in completely the wrong place, namely
in the root of Apache, not in the root of the domain.
- It seems that lynx by itself adds a "/" to the name of the file
- this only seems to happen with links that are <name>.php files and
not with <name>.html files, as those links work fine

I've tried this with several versions, among which:

Lynx Version 2.8.6rel.4
Lynx Version 2.8.5rel.1


Could you please shed some light on this?

Thanks,

Hendrik-Jan