Question

I have a url that is easily accessible when you request it as:

     http://example.com/2005/01/example.html      or      http://example.com/2005/01/example 

(I actually don’t know why it works without the extension. Instead, it should return the usual 404 error.)

However, when I try to access the following url:

     http://example.com/2005/01/example/     (note the trailing slash) 

I get a 404 Not found error but with the requested url printed as:

     http://example.com/2005/01/example.html/ 

So, it seems the ‘.html’ part was automatically added by apache.

My question is: how do I disable this behavior? I need to do it because I want add mod_rewrite rules to hide the html extension, so that I can access that url as:

     http://example.com/2005/01/example/ 

My apache is 2.2.9 on Ubuntu 8.10.

Thanks!

Answer 1

MultiViews could cause this behavior. Try to disable it:

Options -MultiViews