Question

I don’t know if this is an Apache or PHP thing but if you go to either of:

mysite.com/about
mysite.com/about/

it will show the mysite.com/about.php file instead of a 404 error, because the directory does not exist.

I am sure this is some setting, maybe an htaccess thing, any ideas?

Answer 1

As others have answered it might be a mod_rewrite rule; there is also a directive called MultiViews that is explicitly for enabling the functionality you describe.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/content-negotiation.html#multiviews

The effect of MultiViews is as
follows: if the server receives a
request for /some/dir/foo, if
/some/dir has MultiViews enabled, and
/some/dir/foo does not exist, then the
server reads the directory looking for
files named foo.*, and effectively
fakes up a type map which names all
those files, assigning them the same
media types and content-encodings it
would have if the client had asked for
one of them by name. It then chooses
the best match to the client’s
requirements.

Look for

Options MultiViews

in your httpd.conf or virtualhost-specific config file.