title: Joomla 2.5 404 issues
body: <p>I have a J2.5site set up that uses language.  Thus the urls look something like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.mysite.com/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mysite.com/en/</a></p>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.mysite.com/en/my-component/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mysite.com/en/my-component/</a></p>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.mysite.com/en/my-component/my-alias" rel="nofollow">https://www.mysite.com/en/my-component/my-alias</a></p>
  
  <p>I have also set up a script that emails me whenever a 404 or 500 etc occurs:</p>
  
  <p>Here is the result of one (of hundreds):</p>
  
  <pre><code>500 - Error: 500
  Invalid controller: name='index', format=''
  Call stack
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Function    Location</p>
  
  <pre><code>1   JSite-&gt;dispatch()   /opt/host/apps/joomla/htdocs/index.php:42
  
  2   JError::raiseError()    /opt/host/apps/joomla/htdocs/includes/application.php:208
  
  3   JError::raise() /opt/host/apps/joomla/htdocs/libraries/joomla/error/error.php:251
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><code>URL:/en/index.php</code></p>
  
  <p>Notice the request.  If I understand correctly, nothing should ever ask for /en/index.php. since by that time, it has already been interpreted by the entry index.php and therefore appends '/en/'</p>
  
  <p>I am not getting any request errors in my apache logs or any other apache errors.  </p>
  
  <p>All that is happening is that I am being bombarded with emails stating that something tried to access <a href="http://www.mysite.com/en/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.mysite.com/en/index.php</a> or <a href="https://www.mysite.com/en/my-component/index.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.mysite.com/en/my-component/index.php</a> and thus either generated a 404 or 500 error</p>
  
  <p>Is this spider (search engine bot) issues or is it a server misconfiguration?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks </p>
  
  <p>Jacques</p>