Ubuntu Server: Apache2 seems to attach .php to URI

Question

I'm using the php library tonic for web services. My resource is as example at

base-uri/myResource 

Now if a file myResource.php exists in that directory, the url mod_rewrite gets to see is

base-uri/myResource.php 

which then fails the rewrite conditions and my application breaks (app works on apache on windows)

If I rename myResource.php to my myResourceClass.php (or anything else), it works.

So it seem that apache or one if its modules assumes that with base-uri/myResource I want to call base-uri/myResource.php but only if myResource.php exists.

Is this a general issue or can I somewhere configure this to not happen?

thanks!

EDIT:

see

How to set up a basic mod_rewrite?

The answer contains the same observation!

ANSWER:

The issue is the default Apache configuration on Ubuntu:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews 

MultiViews is changing request_uri from myResource to myResource.php.

Solutions:

• disable MultiViews in .htaccess: Options -MultiViews
• remove MultiViews from default config
• rename the file as example to myResourceClass

I chose last option because that should work regardless of configuration and I only have 3 such files so the change took about 30 secs...

Answer 1

The issue is the default Apache configuration on Ubuntu:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews 

MultiViews is changing request_uri from myResource to myResource.php.

Solutions:

• disable MultiViews in .htaccess: Options -MultiViews
• remove MultiViews from default config
• rename the file as example to myResourceClass

I chose last option because that should work regardless of configuration and I only have 3 such files so the change took about 30 secs...

Answer 2

There's a very high chance that there's a .htaccess file in the folder that checks if something with .php exists as a file, and if so, add the .php extention.

My advice: check for a .htaccess file in the folder. If there's one, and my advice was not enough, then please add to your question so we can go further.