[Xitami] [Xitami 2.5.x: Automatic Translation .html -> .htm does not work

[Rolf Hemmerling]

Hello !

The documentation says
> note that
>      xitami automatically looks for .html extensions if a .htm file is not found. 

With Xitami 2.4.x, especially this works perfectly:

The file
anything.htm
can be addressed as
http://path/anything.htm
and
http://path/anything.html

This was and is a great feature for me, as I still maintain my local
website with files with filenames in the 8+3 scheme,
as if I keep it I may edit the files within a DOS box with a plain MSDOS
editor !
and if I upload by WS_FTP, there is an automatic translation from .htm
to .html !

***** Now with Xitami 2.5.x, this never worked. ***** 
This is true for the current 2.5b5 too.

The  file
anything.htm
, if addressed as
http://path/anything.html
is displayed as plain text file, i.e. you see the HTML layout commands.

Even though I gave feedback to the developers 
xitami@imatix.com 
at 22 Jan 2001, maybe this was TOO late as the development process still
had stopped.

So as Xitami is now on with a fresh new mailing list, I have another
try.

As long as this bug is not fixed, I'll be using 2.4.x, as this is a
major bug which prevents me from keeping my 8+3 naming scheme and
maintaining the files with a plain MSDOS editor.

Btw, may anybody tell me how to configure any other free WEB server
(Apache,..) to support that special translation feature ?

Sincerely
Rolf
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