Apache multiviews unexpected behaviour

Question

I have Apache multiviews enabled on my site but it's causing an unexpected behaviour.

my site www.example.com has an images folder like www.example.com/imgs/ where I store all images

so if I have www.example.com/imgs/pic1.jpg there and I try to access it, it's all fine and it shows the image on my browser.

Now if I go ahead and delete pic1.jpg from the imgs folder, and try to access www.example.com/imgs/pic1.jpg again, I was expecting a 404 but somehow I get served the page www.example.com/index.php (although css styling is lost). It's not a redirect, the URL in the address bar still shows www.example.com/imgs/pic1.jpg but loads the script at www.example.com/index.php

I suspect it's something related to multiviews, my htaccess has only the multiviews option. So how can I fix this? And why apache+multiviews would serve the site's index.php script one folder above?

Thanks

Just to mention that a request to www.example.com/script corretly loads www.example.com/script.php

Answer 1

I've found what was causing this behaviour. As Michael mentioned, it was the primary domain's .htaccess affecting the add-on domain. In my case the solution was simple because I don't need rewrite rules in the add-on domain directory so I just added a line to the .htaccess file for the add-on domain:

RewriteEngine Off