i seems age and senility are catching up with me ... i recall having this same spider-friendly problem on my on my old server, and rick has already provided some of the answers.

something relating to PATH_INFO environment variable, and putting the following into the php.ini file:

cgi.fix_pathinfo =1

i recall that fixed the problem last time. only thing is, now i forget where the php.ini file is located ... frown

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