Weird apache behavior when trying to display urls without html extension

Question

Hello,

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

Answer 2

Is example.html an actual file that lies in the directory path 2005/01? It seems like mod_rewrite is already active. If you use a blog or content management system on your server, then it probably does stuff to your url's already.