How can I make my site’s visitors access my web pages without adding the page extension

Question

I am a beginner and I have just hosted my first ever website; the problem I am faced with now is how to make my site visitors access pages on my site even without adding the page extension.

Example: www.example.com/services Instead of www.example.com/services.php

See this answered already https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4026021/remove-php-extension-with-htaccess — user29671, May 04 '19 at 23:14
Possible duplicate of [Remove .php extension with .htaccess](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4026021/remove-php-extension-with-htaccess) — Wai Ha Lee, May 04 '19 at 23:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '19 at 23:25

You can use url rewrite to append the extension when one is not specified. OR you could build a routing system to link specific uri to a specific resource (quick example here). The latter introduces a lot of complexity but gives much more control. For example, here is basic pseudo code based on a custom routing system I built:

$routes->addStaticRoute(
    /* Pattern */ '/home/myPage',
    /* Params  */ null,
    /* File    */ 'path/to/myPage.php'
);

All requests automatically go to index.php where my router translates the url request into an actual routes to a resource. With the above static route, if a user requests http://mySite/home/myPage, the router will respond with the static file at path wwwroot/path/to/myPage.php.

Another example of a static route:

$routes->addStaticRoute(
    /* Pattern */ '/home/{fileName}.{extension}',
    /* Params  */ ['fileName' => 'index', 'extension' => 'php'],
    /* File    */ 'path/to/{fileName}.{extension}'
);

If a user requests http://mySite/home the router will respond with the default wwwroot/path/to/index.php. Further, if they request http://mySite/home/page5, router will respond with (if exists) wwwroot/path/to/page5.php.

Routing is somewhat of an advanced concept and these are some oversimplified examples but I hope this gets you started.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 04 '19 at 23:29

0

edit .htaccess file and add the following

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

and it will be done

answered May 04 '19 at 23:29

Rawand

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 04 '19 at 23:53

This is the usual solution:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule .* $0.php [L]

But if you want to use $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) to allow:

http://my.domain/script/a/b
# instead of 
http://my.domain/script.php/a/b

... you need something like:

# specifix scripts:
RewriteRule ^(script1|script2)/(.*) /$1.php/$2 [L]
# or more general, but with issues for sub-directotries
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/(.*) $1.php/$2 [L]

# final rules:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule .* $0.php [L]

How can I make my site’s visitors access my web pages without adding the page extension

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