why do we use Options +MultiViews?

htaccess Options explained

[tabish]

Hello,

I didnt get any tutorial for this. Why do we use Options +MultiViews in rewrite rules? how it affects Search engine crawling?

Can anyone point me any tutorial for this?

Regards
Tabish

[jdMorgan]

Look in the Apache documentation under "Content Negotiation" for more information; The MultiViews option enables or disables content negotiation, which is commonly used to serve different file formats (character sets, language settings) to clients, depending on their browser settings. VEry useful on sites with content in different languages, in different character sets, or where the right-to-left/left-to-right reading direction is reversed.

If you don't use this function, then turn MultiViews off to get an improvement in server performance.

Jim

[chrisjoha]

If you have multi lingual content but serve it all with UTF-8 character encoding, does MultiViews still offer any enhacement?