New (sorta) Info From Google

[cd34]

Well, the server config only does the redirect on certain conditions:

ServerName www.domain.com
ServerAlias domain.com

When a request for http://domain.com/ comes in, the alias says, serve it if you have it. So, it finds index.html (or index.php whatever) and serves it.

If you have a Directory like http://domain.com/directory/ it will again serve the index.html (or .php/.shtml/whatever)

However, if you have a link like: http://domain.com/directory when the server does the request it says, hey, directory is not a file, redirect it to the server, let me build the name, and redirects to http://(ServerName)/directory/

So, if the request that comes in is properly formed, apache will not redirect to the ServerName specified in the config.