MultiviewsMatch
MultiviewsMatch
permits three different behaviors
for mod_negotiation’s
Multiviews feature.
MultiviewsMatch [NegotiatedOnly] [Handlers] [Filters] [Any] server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess Compatibility: only available in Apache 2.0.26 and later.
Multiviews allows a request for a file, e.g., index.html, to match any negotiated extensions following the base request, e.g., index.html.en, index.html.fr, or index.html.gz.
The NegotiatedOnly
option provides that every
extension following the base name must correlate to a recognized
mod_mime extension for content negotiation,
e.g., Charset, Content-Type, Language, or Encoding. This is the
strictest implementation with the fewest unexpected side effects, and
it’s the default behavior.
To include extensions associated with Handlers and/or Filters, set
the MultiviewsMatch
directive to either
Handlers
, Filters
, or both
option keywords. If all other factors are equal, the smallest file
will be served, e.g., in deciding between
index.html.cgi of 500 characters and
index.html.pl of 1,000 bytes, the
.cgi file would win in this example. Users of
.asis files might prefer to use the Handler
option, if .asis files are associated with the
asis-handler.
You may finally allow Any
extensions to match,
even if mod_mime doesn’t
recognize the extension. This was the behavior in Apache 1.3 and can
cause unpredictable results, such as serving
.old or .bak files that the
webmaster never expected to be served.
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