[thelist] mod_rewrite problem... again... - SOLVED

[Dunstan Orchard]

Ah, a solution!

The people at DigitalSpace.net (the hosts) finally worked it out for me:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:32:33 -0700, Landon J. Dirgo wrote
> I found the problem with you redirecting.  The .htaccess configuration 
> had nothing to do with the problem.  A new feature "MutliViews" is 
> turned on in apache which causes incomplete files to be found and have 
> their extension attached.  For example if you type in 
> digitalspace.net/index looking for index.html it would find the 
> correct file (although this option is not enabled on digitalspace.net)
> .  Since you were loading the seminars directory and it didn't exist 
> the MultiViews function was finding and displaying seminars.php.  This 
> caused a problem with mod_rewrite and made it appear as though you 
> couldn't turn off mod_rewrite.  I turned off MultiViews in your 
> .htaccess.  Make sure that the first line of your .htaccess is always the
> following:
> 
> Options -MultiViews
> 
> It appears that with the MultiViews option off your .htaccess file is
> working as desired.

What a relief :o)

Thanks for all the help (especially Kelly), I hope this saves someone else a 
bit of hair-pulling, it's been bothering me for months and months now.

<tip type="apache">
If you are having problems getting mod_rewrite to run your rules in the 
correct order, try turning off Multiviews (a new feature in Apache).

Make sure that the first line of your .htaccess reads:

Options -MultiViews

Multiviews causes incomplete files to be found and have their extension 
attached. For example if you type in digitalspace.net/index looking for 
index.html it would find the correct file. A useful feature, but it can cause 
some problems when using mod_rewrite.
</tip>

Cheers - Dunstan

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