Apache with PHP configured as FastCGI and scripts without suffix

Question

I have working FastCGI PHP inside Apache using mod_fcgid. But I noticed that PHP scripts are executed even without .php suffix specified.

Eg: if file is mail.php then http://example.com/mail.php and http://example.com/mail returns same output of PHP file mail.php

Is this common behaviour? And should be this (execution without suffix) disabled?

my Apache configuration is:

AddHandler fcgid-script .php
<Directory "{WwwRoot}">
    Options -Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
    FCGIWrapper {ConfigsRoot}/fcgi-php5 .php
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

with simple wrapper

#!/bin/sh
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=3
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=2000
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
/usr/bin/php5-cgi

Thanks.

Answer 1

Is this common behaviour?

It's your specific settings.

Solution: Options -MultiViews

Apache Manual says (you will have to scroll down a bit):

The effect of MultiViews is as follows: if the server receives a request for /some/dir/foo, if /some/dir has MultiViews enabled, and /some/dir/foo does not exist, then the server reads the directory looking for files named foo.*, and effectively fakes up a type map which names all those files, assigning them the same media types and content-encodings it would have if the client had asked for one of them by name. It then chooses the best match to the client's requirements.

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And should be this (execution without suffix) disabled?

Up to you. By default such behaviour is disabled.