[BlueOnyx:08725] Re: Rewrite oddity

[Colin Jack]

Hi Christoph,

> 
> Check out the Apache manual part about MultiViews. I guess that's whats
> happening to you. Disabling MultiViews for this site should also prevent apache
> from parsing /test/ as /test.php (and btw also test.html etc.).
> Basically if MultiViews search is done whenever you request a directory that
> does not exist in the filesystem apache tries to add several extensions to your
> request and looks if it can satisfy your request this way.
> 
> Just try with an empty website, add a test.html and request the URL /test it
> will deliver you not a 404 but the contents of test.html until you disable
> Multiviews there - then you'll get the 404 you actually expected.
> 
> This is just from the top of my head...
> 

Thanks for that - I will check that out.

Colin