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janeden
Asked: 2011-11-21 06:12:26 +0800 CST

How to ensure precedence of files over directories with Apache?

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My httpd.conf uses the MultiViews option to serve HTML files for URLs like http://server/blog. This works fine, unless there are directories with the same name – Apache will then try to serve the directory.

Is there any way to ensure precedence of blog.html over blog/, or rather: can I make Apache process content negotiation according to MultiView although a matching entity (the directory) is present?

In nginx, I can do this explicitly:

try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/ =404;
apache-2.2

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  1. Best Answer

    I retreated to using mod_rewrite. The following rule rewrites URLs without a dot (".") only, so /images/image.jpeg is left alone:

    RewriteRule ^/([^\.]+)$ /$1.html [L]
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