title: What exactly does the Multiviews options in .htaccess?
body: <p>I've been struggling a lot with an access rule that needed to rewrite one piece of URL adding a path.</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteRule ^(configuration/.+)$ application-server/$1 [L,NC,R=301,NE]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This Rule caused just a blank page on my Joomla site with no error log or messages.
  The curious thing is that all other rules I had worked perfectly:</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteRule ^(log/.+)$ application-server/$1 [L,NC,R=301,NE]
  RewriteRule ^(monitor/.+)$ application-server/$1 [L,NC,R=301,NE]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in the end, I've found in a forum a suggestion to use the following option:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Options -Multiviews
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That actually solved the issue, however I wonder if there can be any side effects on other Rules when using this option.</p>