Problem with Apache MultiViews and Rewriting

Hello,

I have a problem with MultiViews and rewriting, after a change in the
file naming scheme I would like to enforce a certain clean URL form
without filename extensions in the form of /foo, /bar or /bar.en or
/bar.de instead of foo.html, bar.en.html, bar.de.html. To be precise I
want the following external redirects:

foo.html -> /foo
bar.html -> /bar (and then content negotiation should determine if the
de or en variant is delivered)

For bar.html this can be solved by

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(de|en)\.html$
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

However this creates an infinite redirect loop for foo.html, it matches
the RewriteCond, is turned from foo.html into /foo, then Multiviews
makes that foo.html again and the rewrite starts all over infinitely.

How can I stop that? I cannot just turn off MultiViews since I need it
for /bar.

Thanks for any help.

Regards,

Johann

iN ARTICLE <1160518963.572660.204740@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
"Johann Gile" <jgile_linux@yahoo.de> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with MultiViews and rewriting, after a change in the
> file naming scheme I would like to enforce a certain clean URL form
> without filename extensions in the form of /foo, /bar or /bar.en or
> /bar.de instead of foo.html, bar.en.html, bar.de.html. To be precise I
> want the following external redirects:
>
> foo.html -> /foo
> bar.html -> /bar (and then content negotiation should determine if the
> de or en variant is delivered)

Forget mod_rewrite. mod_negotiation will select the right variant for
you, regardless of whether the ".html" appears in the URLs.
See the documentation, and also the (multilingual) Apache manual itself.

--
Nick Kew

Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book
http://www.prenhallprofessional.com/title/0132409674

Nick Kew schrieb:

> iN ARTICLE <1160518963.572660.204740@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
> "Johann Gile" <jgile_linux@yahoo.de> writes:
> > /bar.de instead of foo.html, bar.en.html, bar.de.html. To be precise I
> > want the following external redirects:
> >
> > foo.html -> /foo
> > bar.html -> /bar (and then content negotiation should determine if the
> > de or en variant is delivered)
>
> Forget mod_rewrite. mod_negotiation will select the right variant for
> you, regardless of whether the ".html" appears in the URLs.

well, this already works and is not the issue. However I want URLs with
a ".html" to be redirected with a 301 code as shown above. I just can't
get it to work without an infinite redirect loop beacuse of MultiViews.