Apache loads any file that begins with the same string as used in url. How to prevent this?

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Published on 2010-04-23T10:23:07Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 20:38 UTC
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If I point to:

mywebsite.com/search

and there is a file called search.php or search.html or search.inc.php or search.whatthehell.php in website's directory, Apache will point to that file instead of 404'ing.

What is even more annoying is that if I point to:

mywebsite.com/search/string?also=whatever

Apache will still display any file with filename that begins with "search.".

Also, all RewriteRules with patterns containing filenames existing in directory are ignored/useless.

I'm using Apache 2 on Mac, unmodified httpd.conf. How do I prevent it from redirecting my urls so freely?

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