On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Brad Nicholes wrote: > If I explicitly request the page /index.html and that page does not > exist, shouldn't Apache respond with one of the language versions of > the page? Currently on NetWare anyway, I can request / and get back > whatever language version of index.html my browser supports. But if > I specifically request index.html I get back "page not found". How > is this suppose to work?
I'm guessing you are talking about the docroot of the default distribution. If so, note that we have DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var and no Multiviews. So when you request "/", apache checks for index.html, doesn't find it, and goes on to look for index.html.var. index.html.var triggers the negotiation. When you request "index.html", it doesn't look at the DirectoryIndex directive, and so it stops with the 404 at index.html. The easy way to fix this is to simply add Options +MultiViews to the directory. Then apache will check for index.html.* if you request index.html and no exact match exists. We don't have this in the default config because MultiViews is an expensive and potentially dangerous option if not used carefully. Joshua.
