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How do I stop the server from automatically correcting
spelling mistakes in URLs or offering multiple choices for
documents?

The spelling correction feature of mod_speling will automatically correct minor spelling mistakes in URLs requested by a browser. Sometimes a correction will result in a redirect to the correctly spelled document filename. Other times, the server may offer the browser a "multiple choice" of documents that are spelled similarly to what they requested.

To turn off this feature, put this line in an .htaccess file in or above the directory in which you want this feature turned off:

CheckSpelling Off

More information about this feature is in the Apache Documentation.

User-Contributed Notes

user -at- example.com
24-Jul-2002 07:18

CheckSpelling and modwrite don't work good together.  

My host made the mistake of automatically enabling CheckSpelling.  All
of a sudden my website  was pointing to sensitive sql files.

Don't use the two together

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