why does this condition match

[mboedick]

I have the following in my .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.+[^/]) $1.html [L]

When I request "/test/foo" and the file "/test.html" exists, I get an internal server error. It should be giving me a 404.

Why does the rewrite condition evaluate true? The directory "/test" does not exist and the file "/test/foo.html" does not exist, so the -f should return false. It seems like mod_rewrite is appending .html to just the "test" part of the path and testing that.

Any ideas?

[seomike]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/.*$ /$1.html [R]


if the directory is called /test/foo and it doesn't exist then the the rewrite rule will redirect to a file on the root of the server called /test.html.

If you don't want it to redirect the change the [R] to [L] and it will read the file test.html as if it were /test/foo