I am working on a website and just installed wordpress as an onsite blog. I am running into an issue where the website does not regognize the blog folder I created because the system is set up to add .php to end of a command it doesn't understand. Here is the coding from the htacess file:

# compress all text & html:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

# Or, compress certain file types by extension:

<Files *.php>

Any thoughts on how I can amend the htacess file to allow my /blog/ folder to be read properly?

Hi,
The .htaccess snippet you've posted has nothing to do with the above behavior. If I can understand well ypur description, it looks like "Multiviews" is enabled in apache "Options" directive.

Regards

Will turning off the multiviews command fix this issue without harming the rest of my site?

Depends if you want that functionality or not.
If you need it for the rest of your site, then disable it only for the specific direstory, e.g:
Note also, that by default Multiviews is disabled.

Regards

I'll try that out. Thanks for the help.

okay so when I added the script provided to my Htaccess it registered a 500 internal server error.

Check the apache error_log to find the reason for this error.

Error Log:

[29-Nov-2012 12:52:12] PHP Warning: ksort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/vne/visitnewengland.com/includes/calendar_include.php on line 155
[29-Nov-2012 12:52:12] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/vne/visitnewengland.com/includes/calendar_include.php on line 157
[29-Nov-2012 12:52:12] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/vne/visitnewengland.com/includes/calendar_include.php on line 167
[29-Nov-2012 13:14:09] PHP Warning: ksort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/vne/visitnewengland.com/includes/calendar_include.php on line 155
[29-Nov-2012 13:14:09] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/vne/visitnewengland.com/includes/calendar_include.php on line 157
[29-Nov-2012 13:14:09] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/vne/visitnewengland.com/includes/calendar_include.php on line 167
[29-Nov-2012 13:19:13] PHP Warning: ksort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/vne/visitnewengland.com/includes/calendar_include.php on line 155
[29-Nov-2012 13:19:13] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/vne/visitnewengland.com/includes/calendar_include.php on line 157
[29-Nov-2012 13:19:13] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/vne/visitnewengland.com/includes/calendar_include.php on line 167

These are warnings (from php) not errors. Maybe the errors are logged in a different logfile.
Anyways, if you're going to use a .htaccess to remove Multiviews, then remove the opening <Directory ...> and the closing </Directory> directives (leave just the "Options ..." part)

I tried this options and still had a 500 internal server error. I will try to locate the errors you requested to help me. Thank you for your assistance.