Remove .php extensions with .htaccess without breaking DirectoryIndex

Question

I have the following rewrite in my .htaccess file which removes the .php extension from files, converting for example so.com/question.php to so.com/question.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

However this also breaks the default DirectoryIndex behaviour, in which just typing the directory will redirect to the index file in the folder, e.g. so.com/answer displays so.com/answer/index.php

Simply combining the above code with DirectoryIndex index.php does not achieve both results.

Can someone help me combine these two functions, or rewrite the code to exclude index.php files, which would achieve the same result?

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '12 at 14:33

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I'm thinking you just need to verify that the file exists prior to doing the rewrite, that way you'll leave 404 and directoryindex behaviours intact:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [NC,L]

(not tested)

answered Mar 09 '12 at 14:33

Timothée Groleau

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@Timothée Groleau nice code, is there any option to remove 'index.php' for home page ? – Mo. Apr 02 '13 at 03:47
working fine, i had little complex case, http://example.com/page.php?id=3479&name=this-is-page-name i had to convert it to http://example.com/page/?id=3479/name=this-is-page-name – Dheeraj Thedijje Aug 28 '15 at 09:34

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 19 '19 at 06:07

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

I tested and it is working fine.

answered Jan 19 '19 at 06:07

kiran malvi

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 09 '12 at 14:33

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f 
RewriteRule !.*\.php$ %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php [L, QSA]

verify files and folder and also, add RewriteBase /

answered Mar 09 '12 at 14:33

Crsr

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This one gives an Internal Server Error :( – ajcw Mar 09 '12 at 14:36
strange... you add also engine on ? :) – Crsr Mar 09 '12 at 14:54
Yes, I included `RewriteEngine On` :) – ajcw Mar 09 '12 at 14:56
@Crsr, just as a point you don't escape `.` on the 1st arg of a cond. :- – TerryE Mar 09 '12 at 22:03

Remove .php extensions with .htaccess without breaking DirectoryIndex

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