apache helping went I don't want it to help

[Kevin Cozens]

David Thornton wrote:
> Maybe you guys can help me out with a little trouble I'm having.
> I have a client who wants to stop apache from doing something it does by 
> default.
> 
> If you have a file in htdocs called myfile.html
> 
> you can surf to that file like this:
> 
> http://www.me.com/myfile.html
> 
> but transparently you can also use:
> 
> http://www.me.com/myfile
> 
> and you get the same file.

What version of Apache are you running? I just tried the above with Apache 
2.0.52 running on my machine. I got a 404 error trying to pull up /index 
from a directory but /index.html worked.

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