On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 09:28 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > With much cooler head and weekend after me and after carefull > consideration of Chris's > comments I have decided to go with: Good =)
Some comments to your text :) > php5 (5.4.4-7) unstable; urgency=low > > * As a side effect of MIME-Type changes in the mime-support package, the > default Apache 2 configuration doesn't support MultiViews negotiation, That reads like as if mod_negotiation itself was disabled per default in Apache (Stefan, if you kept on reading: I'd absolutely support this ;-) )... is this the case, OR do we just have the effect that is does (as it should) no longer work for the files whose php files were removed? > PHP 5 and Apache 2 Multiviews > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Apache 2 mod_negotiation's MultiViews needs php scripts to have a > MIME-Type to make the negotiation work. We are using Apache 2 handlers > (SetHandler directive) to enable PHP processing, so by default the > MultiViews support is disabled in Debian packages. Again, that reads a bit, as if negotiation was generally not "available". Perhaps if we write: "so by default the MultiViews support for PHP files is disabled in Debian packages." > You can explicitly > add extra MIME-Types (different from magic application/x-httpd-* types) > which will not cause any special PHP processing, [Optionally (but I don't insist), one could add something like the following here:] (unless another way than Debian's default way of enabling PHP is used) [just as a warning...] > but just enable > MultiViews negotiation support. > Add these two lines to you Apache 2 config to enable MultiViews: > AddType application/x-php php phtml php3 > AddType application/x-php-source phps Correct :) And actually... if it's really HTTP Negotiation that is desired (and not tiding URLs from /foo.php to /foo) we MUST NOT use prevent the file.php.foo issue, because we need to allow things like: foo.php.en (e.g. returning English content) foo.php.de (e.g. returning German content) > Also most likely what you really want would be better accomplished by > mod_rewrite rules where you can explicitly specify what gets > rewritten to what (e.g. http://localhost/file gets rewritten to > file.php, but not to file.html or file.js). I, personally, would rather turn up that like this: "If what you actually want, is to enable tidy URLs (e.g. http://example.org/foo can be used instead of http://example.org/foo.php) HTTP Content Negotiation is not what should be used anyway. That would be better accomplished by URL rewriting (via mod_rewrite) rules where one can explicitly specify what gets rewritten as what. > (e.g. http://localhost/file gets rewritten to > file.php, but not to file.html or file.js). That example contradicts IMHO a bit the intention that we suppose the user to have: We expect that he wants to get a file "/foo.php" be accessible via "/foo", right? So the user most likely doesn't have files "/foo.html" or "/foo.js" in addition (which would then of course be negotiated, too - likely with ambiguous results). Because auf this, a URL "/foo" should not get "rewritten", because negotiation only happens (IIRC) when the "target" file exists. > <I would like to add text here with instructions how to enable > mod_rewrite handling.> I'll try to write you some mod_rewrite rules later; I'm just on the train right now and I'll have to give lectures tomorrow, so not sure when I find time. Hope that helps, Chris.
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