Apache :: Apache2 forces me 2 specify 'php' file extensions

elwoody · Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 5 Location: SFCA

Friends,

I gotz:
Apache 2.0.59
Php 5.1.6
WXPP-SP2

Thanks in advance for your help - this is killing me, yet I'm certian it's simple.

I just upgraded from Apache 1.3, and now I must add '.php' to all my urls - otherwise I get 404's.

This works:
http://localhost/phpinfo.php

This doesn't - though it did with 1.3:
http://localhost/phpinfo

How do I register a file alias? Or, if that's not what it is, how might I fix this?

markymark · Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 10 Location: Brighton, UK

I'm no expert on this but it looks like you're going to need to do content negotiation using mod_negotiation.

There's a good bit of information at

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/rewrite/

Hope that helps.

Mark

markymark · Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 10 Location: Brighton, UK

There seems to be another way to do this. Try adding:

ForceType application/x-httpd-php

to your .htaccess file.

Mark

Brian · Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 209 Location: Puyallup, WA USA

phpinfo.php is a file that you are requesting. The server is simply assuming that just phpinfo is a directory. When you add the extension it knows that it needs to handle the file in a certain way. If you don't add the extension then it must be FORCED to assume that this is a PHP file, in which case what would happen if you had a file called PHPINFO.PHP and a directory called PHPINFO and you just called http://localhost/phpinfo? Would it go to the directory or open the PHP file?

Sounds confusing to me.

Are you saying that this would go to phpinfo.php on your 1.3 server?

I have never used 1.3 version, but I cannot imagine that would be the case. That means the server is being instructed to add the .php or perhaps phpinfo.php is one of the defined default pages, or mod_rewrite is completing the url, sheeesh, I just don't know.

I'd say that you need to simply include the .php, why not after all is my question Smile

CanUuRead · Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 38

Elwoody,

What you want can be achieved by adding MultiViews in the directory that contains the files.

Example:

<Directory "X:/somefolder">
Options MultiViews
...
...
...
</Directory>

Note the following documentation:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#options

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/content-negotiation.html#negotiation - SCROLL DOWN TO MULTIVIEWS SECTION

Before you USE THIS, MAKE SURE YOU READ THE ABOVE documentation so you understand the behavior.

Note: Mod_Negotiation must also be enabled via the LoadModule directive