redirect .php and .html to extensionless version

Question

I have pages like domain.de/test and I want every other version to redirect to this:

www.domain.de/test
List itemdomain.de/test.php
domain.de/test/
(and mixed forms of those)

How can I solve this? I found solutions for every version except to remove the file-extension. But of course the image and pdf file extensions should work.

This is my code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# FORCE HTTPS
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://bm-translations.de/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

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

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . / [L,R=301]

<IfModule mod_filter.c>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
## Enable gzip compression ##
# compress text, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

# Remove browser bugs
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent
## END Enable gzip compression ##
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

AddType font/woff .woff
ExpiresByType font/woff "access plus 1 year"
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/woff

AddType image/svg+xml .svg
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType text/html "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 3 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 3 year"
ExpiresDefault "access 3 month"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

And is there a way to combine those rules somehow to reduce code?

Possible duplicate of [Remove .php extension with .htaccess](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4026021/remove-php-extension-with-htaccess) — Ahmet Zeybek, Apr 15 '18 at 05:54
thats no answer to my question. I already removed the need for file-extension but want a redirect but only for .php and .html so images and pdf are still available — Krystian, Apr 15 '18 at 06:52
This answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/30566026/1427878 to the duplicate already does that for the `.php` extension. — CBroe, Apr 15 '18 at 09:31
I tried several answers, but none of them are working with my .htaccess from above @Cbroe .php is still accessable — Krystian, Apr 15 '18 at 11:56

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 16 '18 at 14:29

You can use the following htaccess (The shorter version of your RewriteRules) .I also added rules to remove .php extension from urls.

 RewriteEngine on

 #http to https and www to non-www in a single redirect
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://bm-translations.de/$1 [L,R=301]
# remove php extension
# redirect/ /file.php to /file
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ /$1 [L,R]
#rewrite /file to /file.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ /$1.php [L]

<IfModule mod_filter.c>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
## Enable gzip compression ##
# compress text, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

# Remove browser bugs
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent
## END Enable gzip compression ##
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

AddType font/woff .woff
ExpiresByType font/woff "access plus 1 year"
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/woff

AddType image/svg+xml .svg
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType text/html "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 3 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 3 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 3 year"
ExpiresDefault "access 3 month"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

Thank you very much but now its redirecting to extensionless but this is now resulting in 404 error — Krystian, Apr 15 '18 at 14:09
@KrystianManthey Does the file uri you are accessing exist in your file system? Is it an existing .php file? — Amit Verma, Apr 15 '18 at 14:51
yes all existing subpages are ending with .php and with your code all are redirected to the version without php. But this is then not working. — Krystian, Apr 15 '18 at 14:54
same problem. I will contact my hoster, maybe its some server-side configuration problem? — Krystian, Apr 15 '18 at 16:27
Yes maybe so. because the rule is working as expected on my server. — Amit Verma, Apr 15 '18 at 16:33

redirect .php and .html to extensionless version

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