Question

A client has a website running on a dedicated host (either developed, nor managed by myself) in which Apache is generating a very strange behavior.

When the requested url is of the type:

http://obituarieshelp.org/aboutus.html/whatever_here

it actually loads ‘aboutus.html’ if it exists, even though ‘whatever_here’ does not exist, and ‘aboutus.html’ is not a directory.

I took a look at the htaccess file, and everything seems to be fine. I am sure it is apache misconfigured somehow, but for the love of me, I cannot seem to find anything that could point to the problem in httpd.conf

Has anyone experienced the same, or has any suggestions as to why this would be?

Answer 1

This is controlled by the AcceptPathInfo HTTPd directive. The remainder of the path after the file is made available in the PATH_INFO environment/server variable, and scripts can use it to discern additional information about the request.