当文件名与目录名匹配时，RewriteRule导致内部错误

Question

I've made it so that /user/username successfully directs the user to /userui.php?username=username . However, if I change the name of userui.php to user.php , I get internal errors since the name of the fake directory matches the name of the real file.

What changes can be made so I can successfully name my file user.php and still serve to the /user/ directory?

Working fine:

RewriteRule ^user/([^/]+)$ userui.php?username=$1 [L,QSA]

Internal Server Error:

RewriteRule ^user/([^/]+)$ user.php?username=$1 [L,QSA]

Answer 1

Try turning off MultiViews by placing this line:

Options -MultiViews

on top of your .htaccess. Option MultiViews is used by Apache's content negotiation module that runs before mod_rewrite and makes Apache server match extensions of files. So /file can be in URL but it will serve /file.php .