Ever since I moved to Linux, I noted some strange behaviour. In Ubuntu, http://localhost/index works but on WAMP it does not work. I tested this with APACHE's rewrite module set to off on both. Any good explanation?
Apache.conf (LAMP)
etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
Apache.conf WAMP
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/">
#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options
# for more information.
#
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride all
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
# onlineoffline tag - don't remove
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
EDIT: Why it behaves this way thanks to [tntu][2]
Because of the directive Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews on LAMP (ubuntu), the url localhost/index can resolve to the file index.php, index.html. So foo would also result into foo.php, foo.html. A proper explanation can be derived from http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/content-negotiation.html
