Configuring Apache to not rewrite URLs for FILE +

Question

I have this problem where all URLs like context/path/file/anything/that/follows becomes context/path/file.php/anything/that/follows or context/path/file.xml/anything/that/follows.

I have the following rewrite rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^service/(.*)$ service.php?xyz=1 [L,QSA]

which should map any URL starting with service/... to service.php. Now, problem is, if an XML file named service.xml is in the same folder as the .htaccess, the URLs are mapped to that file instead. If a PHP file exists, they go to the PHP file. The XML file takes precedence, i.e. if there is both an XML file and a PHP file with the name service.* in the directory, the XML file gets chosen.

I have PHP 5.3, Apache 2.x, on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). This problem did not previously occur when I had OS X 10.6, So there must be some changes in the configurations provided by Apple. I just cannot figure out what.

Is there a way I could disable this functoinality?

Or am I entirely off-track, and donig something stupid?

BTW, this does not relate to mod_rewrite, as enabling or disabling it, or removing the rewrite rule from the .htaccess changes anything. The URL service/my/parameter still points to service.xml/my/parameter, even if mod_rewrite is disabled.

For now, I have just taken the query string out of the url, and parsed it manually inside the PHP file. But I know that is not the right way to do this.

Answer 1

This seems to be the MultiViews option enabled.

Try to add Options -MultiViews in the <Directory> section (or .htaccess).