* /etc/mime.types gives mime types to .rss and .atom files
* `mod_negotiation`'s MultiViews allows any file with a mime type to be
served up via content negotiation, if the client requests that type.
-* wget etc send "Accept: */*" to accept all content types. Compare
- with firefox, which sends "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*"
+* wget etc send `Accept: */*` to accept all content types. Compare
+ with firefox, which sends `Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*`
* So apache has a tie between a html encoded Enlish file, and a rss encoded
English file and the client has no preference. In a tie, apache will serve up the
*smallest* file, which tends to be the rss file. (Apache's docs say it uses that
[type map files](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_negotiation.html#typemaps).
That should avoid this problem.
--[[Joey]]
+
+Update: A non-intrusive fix is to add this to apache configuration.
+This tunes the "quality" of the rss and atom files, in an apparently currently
+undocumented way (though someone on #httpd suggested it should get documented).
+Result is that apache will prefer serving index.html. --[[Joey]] [[done]]
+
+ AddType application/rss+xml;qs=0.8 .rss
+ AddType application/atom+xml;qs=0.8 .atom