apache helping went I don't want it to help

[David Thornton]

update:

version apache 1.3.33

logs:

<ip> - - [01/Jun/2005:05:06:24 -0400] "GET /myfile HTTP/1.0" 200 333 
"http://www.me.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
 en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1"

<ip> - - [01/Jun/2005:05:06:25 -0400] "GET /myfile.html HTTP/1.0" 200 
333 "http://www.me.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
 en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1"

nice eh?


David Thornton wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> 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.
>
> My client wants to turn off this "feature" because it is "Ruining the 
> web reports".
>
> I've read:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/content-negotiation.html
>
> and I thought that a -MultiViews in Options would do the trick but it 
> didn't.
>
> Any pointers or help would be greatly apprecaited.
>
> david
>


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