Apache appending .php extension?

[raisins]

This is kind of an obscure question, and I hope someone has a clue
what's going on.

I've got PHP4 running on Apache 1.3 on win32, and whenever I request a
URL like so:
http://localhost/tag/
It appears that the server is actually calling the script
http://localhost/tag.php (which is a real file). However, when I do
something like
http://localhost/nonexistantfile/
Apache does not try to serve up anything at all. The behavior of
treating /tag/ like /tag.php is really screwing up my attempts to do
RewriteRule matching. Please help!

[Erwin Moller]

ra*****@gmail.com wrote:

This is kind of an obscure question, and I hope someone has a clue
what's going on.

I've got PHP4 running on Apache 1.3 on win32, and whenever I request a
URL like so:
http://localhost/tag/
It appears that the server is actually calling the script
http://localhost/tag.php (which is a real file). However, when I do
something like
http://localhost/nonexistantfile/
Apache does not try to serve up anything at all. The behavior of
treating /tag/ like /tag.php is really screwing up my attempts to do
RewriteRule matching. Please help!

Hi,

My guess is that your RewriteRule's are causing this problem.
Under 'normal' apache installation, this doesn't happen.

Try to remove your extra rules, make a plain entry in conf for your site,
reload Apache gracefull, and retry.
Does it still happen?

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[raisins]

Thanks for the response. I have tried commenting out all my Rewrite
directives (I have checked .htaccess and httpd.conf), and this is still
happening. It seems crazy. Is there some other file I can check maybe?

[raisins]

I have checked that too -- there is no /tag/ directory (or redirect or
anything) -- and the problem occurs for any file, e.g. if I access
http://localhost/privacy/ it pulls up http://localhost/privacy.php, and
there is definitely no /privacy/ directory!!

[Adam Harvey]

On Wed, 24 May 2006 20:54:09 -0700, raisins wrote:

I have checked that too -- there is no /tag/ directory (or redirect or
anything) -- and the problem occurs for any file, e.g. if I access
http://localhost/privacy/ it pulls up http://localhost/privacy.php, and
there is definitely no /privacy/ directory!!

Do you have MultiViews and/or mod_negotiation switched on in Apache? My
recollection is that it can have similar effects to this.

Adam

--
Adam Harvey

To e-mail: don't make an example out of me!

[raisins]

Adam Harvey wrote:

Do you have MultiViews and/or mod_negotiation switched on in Apache? My
recollection is that it can have similar effects to this.

Adam

I don't want to overstate this, but you are a genius. Multiviews was
turned on for the base directory, and disabling it has solved my
problems. I definitely would not have found this on my own. Thank you!