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How to stop php files from behaving like folders

This all started with another problem, but I was reviewing the logs for my webserver and i noticed search engine spiders hitting really weird URLs, and not getting 404's For example:

http://www.k2wrpg.org/archive/mantis/wiki/wiki/wiki/archive.php?ID=83

Currently if you go to that url, you get what should be at http://www.k2wrpg.org/archive.php except the images and CSS items are all broken, but thats not the point. The point is that the URL points to a folder named archive and there is no such folder, so to me this URL should 404.

now here is the tough part. I have a phpwiki on my site see: http://www.k2wrpg.org/wiki/index.php/RecentChanges The solution can not break this. I don't think that should be a problem, because http://www.k2wrpg.org/wiki/index.php is a file that can be found, so anything after that should be treated as parameters as it currently is.

Thanks in advance!

m1tk4

>>folder named archive and there is no such folder, so to me this URL should 404.

Not necessarily. This could have been redefined either through Aliases or URL rewrites in your Apache config. I'd start looking from there.

vtechpilot

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mod_rewrite is not loaded. There are no aliases like this that i have found in httpd.conf. It affects all php files. so http://www.k2wrpg.org/feeds/gibberish gets you what is normally at http://www.k2wrpg.org/feeds.php.

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vtechpilot

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Ah, the famous caterhamm_www. Ok, so I added the following to my conf file and things now behave as expected. I share the server so I couldn't just make the change global, but MultiViews was exactly what I was looking for.

<Directory "c:/my_dir">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>