DO NOT REPLY [Bug 29576] New: - Content negotitation (MultiViews) occurs before mod_rewrite leading to odd results

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Content negotitation (MultiViews) occurs before mod_rewrite leading to odd results

           Summary: Content negotitation (MultiViews) occurs before
                    mod_rewrite leading to odd results
           Product: Apache httpd-2.0
           Version: 2.0.49
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: mod_negotiation
        AssignedTo: bugs@httpd.apache.org
        ReportedBy: lukeross@sys3175.co.uk


If a directory has both MultiViews (possibly inherited from a parent) and
RewriteRules, the MultiView lookup is done before the Rewrite. This can result
in odd errors.

To demonstrate:
1. Create two directories and enable Multiviews in both of them
2. Create a file in each, with the same stem but different extensions (say,
A.html and A.shtml).
3. Verify you can access them as /dir1/A and /dir2/A
4. Now put in a RewriteRule on dir1 that redirects requests to dir2.
5. Get a 404 Not found error for "/dir2/A.html" when accessing /dir1/A

Here the sequence of events is:

 /dir1/A -> /dir1/A.html (MultiView)
 /dir1/A.html -> /dir2/A.html (Rewrite)
 /dir2/A.html not found

I believe it should be:

 /dir1/A -> /dir2/A (Rewrite)
 /dir2/A -> /dir2/A.shtml
 /dir2/A.shtml found

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