According to rhmanual (sec. 5.4) path to RedHat directory has to begin with slash. But installer adds yet another slash between web server name and path (src/install/urlmethod.c:302), so this results to URL like "http://web.server.org//redhat-6.0/RedHat/" which can cause problems with some web servers (e.g. OSU but also Apache). Apache returns "404 Not Found" for "//~user/" although "/~user/" is "200 OK". However "//directory/" is also OK (this is probably problem with Apache). FIX (to RedHat) write path to RedHat directory without beginning '/' (change the docs) or in urlmethod.c change the line 302: sprintf(ui->urlprefix, "%s://%s/%s", to: sprintf(ui->urlprefix, "%s://%s%s",
I have verified that the http strings does in fact get formatted as reported which can cause confusion on some web servers.
will be fixed on next installer release.