.htaccess Error Prevention

.htaccess Error Prevention

This setting affects how MultiViews work for the directory the configuration applies to.

The effect of MultiViews is as follows: if the server receives a request for /some/dir/foo, if /some/dir has MultiViews enabled, and /some/dir/foo does not exist, then the server reads the directory looking for files named foo.*, and effectively fakes up a type map which names all those files, assigning them the same media types and content-encodings it would have if the client had asked for one of them by name. It then chooses the best match to the client's requirements.

The setting disables MultiViews for the directory this configuration applies to and prevents Apache from returning a 404 error as the result of a rewrite when the directory with the same name does not exist

Options -MultiViews