#13421 [Com]: Problematic MIME-Type "application/x-httpd-php"

ID: 13421 Comment by: j.westendorp@chello.nl Reported By: php@matthias-wimmer.de Status: No Feedback Bug Type: Apache related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: I have the same problem: I can't view my "Multiviewed" pages (e.g. http://domain.com/news/38 instead of http://domain.com/news.php?ID=38 ) with a user agent that does not send the "Accept: */*" request header (like AvantGo 3.2 does) because Apache throws a "406 No Acceptable Variant" error. I'm running PHP 4.2.2 on Apache 1.3.19 (Red-Hat/Linux) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-16 01:00:06] php-bugs@lists.php.net No feedback was provided for this bug for over 2 weeks, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-30 20:48:44] iliaa@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-09 05:39:03] hholzgra@php.net sorry, mixed up two bugs here, reopening ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-08 16:40:25] hholzgra@php.net thats something you have to deal with at the application level IMHO PHP cannot do much about it as it does not deal with static content like apache does, so it makes no sense to run a script first and discard the results later just because the do not match the accept types a client sending accept headers should be clever enogh to deal with unexpected return types so no harm should be taken by this ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-09-24 17:53:15] php@matthias-wimmer.de I noticed that using the MIME-Type "application/x-httpd-php" for php-Scripts produces a problem under Apache 1.3.x with MultiViews turned on. When an user agent (like Google or Altavista) sends the Header "Accept: text/*" and the complete location is not given (e.g. "http://domain.com/index" instead of "http://domain.com/index.php") Apache tries to guess the right file-name extension. But Apache will answer the request with a 406 error ("not acceptable") becaus it thinks the php file is of type "application/x-httpd-php", which is not compatible to "text/*". Me suggested solution would be to change the MIME-Type to "text/x-httpd-php". Content negotiation under Apache 1.3 would work then. Note: This problem is non existend at Apache 2.0.x where I can change the MIME type without any problems because php is a filter there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=13421&edit=1