EK created a "survey" for the CCMS doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. The purpose is to gather information so that a profile can be made about these people. I didn't have much of a hand in the development, even though the principles had originally envisioned something a little more robust.
At any rate, it was posted today (or released ... I dunno). EK took off before any actual use and it turns out some of the scripts had not been updated for their current location. Orignially the scripts were developed in a CCMS sub-directory and still referred specifically to that directory. It probably would have been better to not specify the directory at all since the scripts all reside in the same directory.
At any rate, the students and fellows were asked to fill out the survey. Naturally, 404 errors were encountered as people attempted to register. I was asked to take a look and immediately saw the problem. But another problem kept me from fixing this minor error, EK was the only person who had write permissions on the files in question. I'm not too fond of the Mac's very rudimentary file system security. Sadly, it's just an inheretence from the unix-style core of the system and expect Apple will address the shortcomings in the future. At present, however, Microsoft has far surpassed Apple in this regard.
Of course, Apple's web server is based on Apache and has a number of features microsoft would be wise to invest in. One of those is aliasing and redirecting. Entire URLs can be re-written based on a regular expression match. Apple's interface to the functionality leaves a little to be desired, but I was able to set up an alias that points all referrals to the ccms sub-directory back to the root.
My other option was to create a ccms sub-directory and copy all the files to it. The above solution, however, is a much better option.
