

Later versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari (and reportedly Edge and IE) automatically convert any unencoded backslashes in the URL-path to (forward) slashes before making the request to your server. However, Off is the default, so unless this has been explicitly enabled already in the server config, then you do not need to do this. This will result in such URLs returning a "404 Not Found". %5C) in the URL-path by setting the following in the server config (not. If, however, you are talking about the use of unencoded backslashes in the URL-path then you can do something, however.ĪFAIK, there is no configurable option in Apache itself to disable unencoded backslashes in the URL-path. You just have to remember to always use forward slashes I'm afraid.

However, because Apache may interpret backslashes as an "escape character" sequence, you should consistently use forward slashes in path names, not backslashes.Īny directive that takes an absolute file-path is unlikely to work unaltered on Linux anyway.
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