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  From: John Edwards <isplist@adam.com.au>
  To  : Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
        LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 18:47:08 +0930

Re: Apache question

>An even mroe worrying thing is that if I have a file
>xyz.html and the client requests xyz, then the Apache server
>delivers xyz.html. This is very peculiar, and despite some effort to locate
>how to turn this off, I still haven't found out how it is controlled.

You turn it on with "Options Multiviews"

It is used for content negotiation (ie: multiple language websites) which is
compiled into Apache by default.

It's handy for producing dynamic content that you want search engines to
index (by using PATH_INFO instead of QUERY_STRING), especially if you don't
have enough access to configure a forcetype directive.

>But it would also nice to be able to reject a request to
>http://www.xyz.com/ returning my "/" URL.

Setup a named virtual host for your hostname, with no default website, or
make the default web site return the desired error message and code.

John Edwards


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