[thelist] Weird Apache Behaviour

Mark Groen evolt at markgroen.com
Tue Sep 27 17:01:04 CDT 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Grimes" <>
To: "thelist" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 12:32 PM
Subject: [thelist] Weird Apache Behaviour


> Apache started acting a little weird a couple months ago. If I try to
access
> a non-existent directory through the browser, it returns a file of the
same
> name (if one exists in the main directory).
>
> For example, try accessing this non-existent directory:
>
> http://www.ppdm.org/contact/
>
> And apache returns this page:
>
> http://www.ppdm.org/contact.html
>
> It doesn't matter what you add after the slash, it still returns
> contact.html:
>
> http://www.ppdm.org/contact/blah/blah/fake_file.html
>
> Does anyone know what's going on? Since the main navigation links are
using
> relative hrefs, Googlebot is getting stuck in infinite loops (i.e.
> /contact/contact/contact/etc). The other sites on the server don't
have this
> problem, so it must be a local configuration problem.
>
> Any ideas? I checked httpd.conf and couldn't find anything out of the
> ordinary.

Sounds like you've got MultiViews turned on:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/content-negotiation.html

cheers,

        Mark



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