mod rewrite rule not working with multiviews enabled

Don't let this long-looking post frighten you... just being thorough in my initial request. K. I'm using mod_rewrite to make pretty urls point to a php file that sucks in a city and displays it. Everything works as expected until content negotiation is enabled. First, the working setup:

.htaccess:


RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/?test\.php/([a-zA-Z_]+)$ test?city=$1 [L]

test.php:


<?php
echo "<p>City = {$_GET['city']}</p>";
echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
?>

uri input = uri output:


http://www.example.com/test.php/phoenix

browser output:


City = phoenix
/test.php/phoenix

The above works as expected. Now add content negotiation (line 2 of .htccess) and change the script relative to extensionless urls, and things stop working:

.htaccess:


RewriteEngine on
Options +multiviews
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/?test/([a-zA-Z_]+)$ test?city=$1 [L]

test.php:


<?php
echo "<p>City = {$_GET['city']}</p>";
echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
?>

uri input = uri output:


http://www.example.com/test/phoenix

browser output:


City =
/test/phoenix

I'm not sure why this is. The thing that baffles me is that I'm returning the uri_request in both cases, and they are just what I expect: one with an extension and the other without. Really this file is just a test to move on to bigger and better things. To get "my" http -> https .htaccess file working without extensions (it currently doesn't). See this post for jdMorgan's excellent advice and thorough details:

[webmasterworld.com ]

And as a side note, jdMorgan mentions a different approach to extensionless urls which is here:

[webmasterworld.com ]

jdMorgan, what be thine take on content negotiation/multiviews? Is there a reason you don't suggest it in the above post? (Perhaps you don't because of the problems I'm having now!)

Looking forward to your advice as you are perhaps the most well known mod_rewrite ninja on this site!

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css¦jpeg¦js¦gif¦png)$ [NC] RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?(secure¦owner)$ RewriteRule ^/?([a-z]+)$ https://www.example.com/$1.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css¦jpeg¦js¦gif¦png)$ [NC] RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?(secure¦owner)$ RewriteRule ^/?([a-z]+)$ http://www.example.com/$1.php [L]

# Externally redirect HTTP requests for "/secure" and "/owner" to HTTPS (SSL), # except for css, jpg, jpeg, js, gif, and png files RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css�jpe?g�js�gif�png)$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(secure�owner) RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L] # # Externally redirect HTTPS requests for all except "/secure" and "/owner" to HTTP, # except for css, jpg, jpeg, js, gif, and png files RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css�jpe?g�js�gif�png)$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(secure�owner) RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L] # # Simple rule: Internally rewrite all extensionless URLs to .php RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)$ /$1.php [L] # # # More-complex-rules: Check for existing files with .php, .html, .htm, .shtml, and .shtm extensions # # If extensionless URL resolves to existing .php file, rewrite to .php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)$ /$1.php [L] # # Else if extensionless URL resolves to existing .html file, rewrite to .html RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)$ /$1.html [L] # # Else if extensionless URL resolves to existing .htm file, rewrite to .htm RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.htm -f RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)$ /$1.htm [L] # # Else if extensionless URL resolves to existing .shtml file, rewrite to .shtml RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.shtml -f RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)$ /$1.shtml [L] # # Else if extensionless URL resolves to existing .shtm file, rewrite to .shtm RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.shtm -f RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)$ /$1.shtm [L]

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