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I'm having the following issue on a host using Apache 2.2.22 + PHP 5.4.0

I need to provide the file /home/server1/htdocs/admin/contents.php when a user makes the request: http://server1/admin/contents, but I obtain this message on the server error_log.

Negotiation: discovered file(s) matching request: /home/server1/htdocs/admin/contents (None could be negotiated)

Notice that I have mod_negotiation enabled and MultiViews among the options for the related virtualhost:

<Directory "/home/server1/htdocs">
    Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

I also use mod_rewrite, with the following .htaccess rules: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^([^\./]*)$ index.php?t=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

It seems very strange, but on the same box with PHP 5.3.6 it used to work correctly. I'm just trying an upgrade to PHP 5.4.0, but I cannot solve this negotiation issue. Any idea on why Apache cannot match contents.php when asking for content (which should be what mod_negotiation is supposed to do)?

UPDATE: I noticed that mod_negotiation behaves correctly with files with extension different than .php: so if I'd have a file named /admin/contents.txt, I can access it regulary with the browser with /admin/contents url. So the problem is only for php files. Any clue on what could make the negotiation fail?

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How do you configure mod_negotiation? Are you using it? – Mircea Vutcovici Mar 23 '12 at 13:56
Well I just include mod_negotiation in httpd.conf, then the MultiViews options in the VirtualHost should be enough to do what I'm looking for, as far as I know.. isn't it? – lorenzo.marcon Mar 23 '12 at 13:58

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I found the solution. Very easy, indeed. I forgot to include the following:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

into apache mod_mime section into httpd.conf

I was misled by the fact that php scripts were correctly working; however the negotiation was failing because mod_negotiation only looks for "interesting" (and known) file types.

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This! This right HERE! Spent most of the night hunting down why I was getting the very unhelpful "Discovered File(s)/None Negotiated" error. Scripts had been working fine before, and I had a devil of a time tracking down the fact that the type wasn't being included in mod_mime on the distribution I was testing on. I owe you a beer sir. – Akoi Meexx Feb 19 at 3:22
I'll gladly accept your beer when I'll come to US :) – lorenzo.marcon Feb 19 at 10:21
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I think that http://stackoverflow.com/a/602355/290087 might answer your question.

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Actually, that answer suggest to disable MultiViews, while I actually want to exploit the features that MultiViews provides – lorenzo.marcon Mar 24 '12 at 10:31

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