----- 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