How to change .php extension of website pages?

Question

I have a website running on PHP. I want to remove the .php suffix from all of my webpages in such way that the user doesn't get to know what server side language is running.

How do I edit the displayed address in the address bar to not show the .php ?

possible duplicate of [replacing .php ext with .html through .htaccess](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4548860/replacing-php-ext-with-html-through-htaccess) — Shakti Singh, Mar 03 '11 at 10:53

Ivar · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-03T10:57:51.393

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With mod_rewrite in .htaccess:

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

edited Mar 03 '11 at 10:57

answered Mar 03 '11 at 10:52

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '11 at 10:50

Apache has a feature, 'MultiViews' that allows the server to choose the correct extension when none is supplied. In your .htaccess or httpd.conf, you can add this:

Options MultiViews

If you have a file at /path/to/blah.php, it can be accessed as merely /path/to/blah.

How to change .php extension of website pages?

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