Posted by Jeremy on 11/17/06 23:33

Jeremy wrote:
> If you have 5.2.0 installed, try this. Create a file called
> "TestThing.class.php" in the document root of a host (say the host is
> test.thing.net).
>
> Now, if you go to http://test.thing.net/TestThing the code in
> TestThing.class.php gets executed. Some kind of URL rewriting is going
> on here on PHP's end? I do not have mod_rewrite enabled on this server
> - it's installed, but "RewriteEngine On" is never issued. I cannot find
> anything in apache2.conf or php.ini that would cause this to occur.
>
> Is there some new thing in PHP5 that does this? This does not happen on
> an identical web site (all code the same, same apache version) on a
> server running 5.1.2. How would php even get *called* for that Request
> URI?
>
> Jeremy

OK, I figured it out. My other server had the MultiViews option enabled
in Apache.

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