Thanks Eric. No, this is a pretty basic configuration and I am not using mod-negotiation that I know of. Not even sure what it does! I'll try that and see what happens. Thanks for the prompt reply. John ====== On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 15:40 -0500, Eric Covener wrote: > Sounds like mod_negotiation / MultiViews. If you don't use it > intentionally, `Options -MultiViews` in your DocumentRoot might help. > > On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 3:36 PM John Iliffe <john.iliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Apache 2.4.25 on a Fedora server. > > > > Due to an emergency I created an html page saying that a function was > > unavailable. The old page (on the apache base directory) was page.php and the > > emergency page was linked to that as page.php -> pagex.html. Worked perfectly. > > > > Now the problem is resolved and I renamed the emergency page as pagex.html.old, > > a soft link to pagex.html -> page.php and the original page is back where it > > used to be. > > > > If I request page.php I get it as expected BUT if I request pagex.html, which no > > longer exists, the SOURCE of pagex.html is displayed on the browser. I thought > > this might be a browser cache issue so I rebooted the workstation and it still > > happened. So I rebooted the server and the problem still exists. I checked > > using ls -l page* and pagex.html does not exist. > > > > If I removed the pagex.html -> page.php link everything works properly but some > > customers have bookmarked pagex.html so I would like to have this link for them. > > > > Any ideas of what I have forgotten? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > John > > ====== > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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