RewriteRule for a single .php page in a sub directory

Question

I've a joomla website. Recentley I added a subdirectory to the root of the website which contains some pages which are not linked to the CMS in any way.

I wanted to remove the .php from the end of these pages as I was going to promote them over social media and wanted the URL's to be easier for users to remember.

The page in questions is:

http://www.mytestwebsite.com/share/thepage.php

So I added the following rule to my .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^/share/thepage?$ /share/thepage.php  [NC]

With the hopes that the URL would be http://www.mytestwebsite.com/share/thepage and still load thepage.php but it's not working.

Croises · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-26T14:03:39.840

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Use:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^share/thepage/?$ /share/thepage.php  [NC,L]

No leading / in the first RewriteRule argument in htaccess.
And /? is for the optional trailing slash (not optional e with e?)

edited Nov 26 '15 at 14:03

answered Nov 26 '15 at 13:46

Croises

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That's not working for me! I literally copied and pasted what you had there – Javacadabra Nov 26 '15 at 13:57
I have these lines in my `.htaccess` `RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^`share/thepage/?$ /share/thepage.php [NC,L]` and still no joy. – Javacadabra Nov 26 '15 at 14:08
Are you sure that the .htaccess file is used ? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9234289/verify-if-htaccess-file-is-running – Croises Nov 26 '15 at 14:12
I try your page. And that work for me without .php ! – Croises Nov 26 '15 at 14:18
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Hi Croises yes it worked. I positioned the code above my other 301 redirects and it worked fine! thank you for your help – Javacadabra Nov 26 '15 at 14:31

RewriteRule for a single .php page in a sub directory

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