put links without file extension (.php)

Question

Is it possible to configure Apache in order not to show a file extension?

For example: Say I have domain.com/page.php but want to have domain.com/page as the url.

Any Ideas?

JohnnyFaldo · Answer 1 · 2014-08-14T08:55:20.367

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Put this is your .htaccess file

#turn on url rewriting 
RewriteEngine on

#remove the need for .php extention 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

This allows you to access .php files without the extension, so your links should read

href="/somepage"

and this will direct to

href="/somepage.php"

edited Aug 14 '14 at 08:55

answered Aug 02 '13 at 13:49

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Seth Battin · Answer 2 · 2015-03-20T14:31:51.743

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There is also MultiViews as a vhost or .htaccess configuration option. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/content-negotiation.html#multiviews

From that page:

The effect of MultiViews is as follows: if the server receives a request for /some/dir/foo, if /some/dir has MultiViews enabled, and /some/dir/foo does not exist, then the server reads the directory looking for files named foo.*, and effectively fakes up a type map which names all those files, assigning them the same media types and content-encodings it would have if the client had asked for one of them by name. It then chooses the best match to the client's requirements.

edited Mar 20 '15 at 14:31

answered Jan 08 '15 at 20:45

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Multiviews can be quite annoying, and get in the way of normal mod_rewrite rules if the choice of filenames and rewrite patterns overlaps. – David Goodwin Jun 11 '15 at 14:17
Very true. Use with caution. – Seth Battin Jun 11 '15 at 16:20
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I added MultiViews in my vhost suffered for 2 days. I was unable to figure out why my clean get request url was not working.... Thanks @TheGingerDog – Indra Kumar S Sep 16 '16 at 08:46
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The comment from @DavidGoodwin and this answer really helped solve a particularly nasty and hard to track conflict between rewrite rules and the MultiViews option enabled. – Scorpius Feb 21 '18 at 18:29

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 18 '15 at 16:20

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This is called URL rewriting. I had to use it for the first time recently and i used this tutorial to learn it, hope you'll find it great too :

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answered Aug 02 '13 at 13:41

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 02 '18 at 12:01

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Put this is your .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^page?$ page.php

<a href="page">page</a>

answered Feb 02 '18 at 12:01

adzoro ziro

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score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 02 '13 at 13:49

You want a web server feature called URL rewriting - every web server application (apache, IIS, nginx) supports this. As the name suggests, it takes the requested URL and rewrites it into a specific format that you define.

There are many guides available on the www, even if you are using shared hosting solution you can still add/modify the .htaccess file to do this.

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