Re: Potential bug?

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Anthony Lieuallen wrote: > I've just discovered a weird quirk in PHP. I'd first like to check if it is > a known bug/weird feature/something else already known. I've not yet tested > it much, except I see it doesn't happen on every script, but either of the > two results are quite strange to me. > > Suituation: file myscript.php exists, directory myscript/ does not. If I > browse to http://myhost/myscript.php all is well. But > http://myhost/myscript/ does return something, where I expect a > '404 not > found'. Sometimes it just returns myscript.php. BUT sometimes it returns > the PHP source (minus PHP comments). Aslo, > http://myhost/myscript/anything/anything/bla.bla.bla returns > the same. > > I was running PHP 4.0.4pl1 on RedHat Linux 6.2, kernel 2.4.6. I upgraded to > PHP 4.0.6 and still see this behavior. > > P.S. For the curious I discovered this because a personal site I have uses > directory/admin.php for site admin, while another site I am developing at > work uses directory/admin/ and I typed the wrong one at home :) I haven't seen this with the php source problem, but otherwise this is a feature of a default installation of apache. Turn off MultiViews for the directories with this problem (or globally in httpd.conf). http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_negotiation.html -- patrik wallstrom | f o o d f i g h t tel: +46-8-6188428 | s t o c k h o l m gsm: +46-709580442 | - - - - - - - - -