Mailing-List: contact users-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: users@httpd.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (asf.osuosl.org: local policy)
Message-ID: <03a001c5a8ae$63895e50$026fa8c0@Andy>
From: "oxfordmusic.net" <lists@oxfordmusic.net>
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>
References: <ab8d3b9105082404207daff3b6@mail.gmail.com>
 <7796799a050824052233934e6e@mail.gmail.com>
 <ab8d3b9105082405577db2a45a@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:18:44 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	format=flowed;
	charset="iso-8859-1";
	reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Which file gets served when the URL does not
 include a mime type extension.

>
> thanks for the reply, the reason I ask is because I'm getting a
> default behaviour that I cannot find documentation of.
>
> i.e. if I sent up a server with these two files in a directory it is
> always serving the XML file over the HTML file.
>
> e.g
>
> http://localhost/test/file
>
> will return file.xml not file.html
>
> I don't think "DirectoryIndex" is appropriate here because the file
> name does not matter, e.g. it could be fred.xml/fred.html or
> bill.xml/bill.html it still chooses the .xml file over the html file
> if both are there..
>

correct. "DirectoryIndex" is not approariate here. that only governs the 
behaviour when http://localhost/test is requested.
what you need to read up on is Content Negotiation:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=apache+content+negotiation&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
which is how the server decides which file to server based on what the 
browser has requested and your own rules.
a simple way to define it is, i believe, to place a file called file.var in 
the same directory with contents something like this:

URI: file

URI: file.html
Content-type: text/html; qs=1

i am by no means an expert but this should at least give you something to 
get started on.

andy 


---------------------------------------------------------------------
The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.
See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info.
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
   "   from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org