Run PHP pages without an extension

Question

I want to run my PHP web pages on an apache web server without the .php extension. So I added the following code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/?.*\..*$) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.php [NC]

in the .htaccess file. This solves my problem but another problem arises. I cannot view the content of any directory (i.e. the file contained in the directory). Please provide me an alternate RewriteRule without this problem.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 24 '12 at 05:30

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You need to make sure that the request URI points to an existing resource if you append the.php to the end of it:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/?.*\..*$) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.php [NC]

the line RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f checks if a ".php" is appended to the requested URI, it mapes to an existing file (-f).

answered Jul 24 '12 at 05:30

Jon Lin

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Thanks for quick response and solving my problem, – Jul 24 '12 at 05:34

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '12 at 05:33

You can use this code, it is working on my website:

RewriteEngine On
#unless directory, remove trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]

#resolve .php file for extensionless php urls
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]

#redirect external .php requests to extensionless url
#RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /([^/]+/)*[^.#?\ ]+\.php([#?][^\ ]*)?\ HTTP/
#RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^.]+)\.php $1 [R=301,L]

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 24 '12 at 05:31

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Try setting DirectoryIndex above your RewriteCond:

DirectoryIndex index.php

answered Jul 24 '12 at 05:31

buley

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Run PHP pages without an extension

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