[thelist] Weird Apache Behaviour

[April]

Check for a .htaccess with a rewrite rule in it maybe?

Tony Grimes wrote:
> 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.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Tony
>