How do I make urls with ".php" return an "Object not found" Error?

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After some googling, I was able to allow my php website load without having to put the ".php", but I want to return an object not found error if it finds the ".php", hence making it a requirement to remove the ".php" extension.

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 28 '21 at 06:55

You could try something like this:

// PHP 8
if(str_contains($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], ".php")) {
    http_response_code(404);
    echo "404 - page not found";
}

// PHP < 8
if(strpos($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], ".php") !== false) {
    http_response_code(404);
    echo "404 - page not found";
}

How do I make urls with ".php" return an "Object not found" Error?

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