How can I remove file extension from a website address

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I am designing a website  I want my website address to look like the following image     I don t want my website to look like http   something com profile php  I want the  php extension to be removed in the address bar when someone opens my website  In other words  I want my website to be like  http   something com profile  As a second example  you can look at the Stack nbsp Overflow website address itself   How can I get this done

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You have different choices  One on them is creating a folder named  profile  and rename your  profile php  to  default php  and put it into  profile  folder  and you can give orders to this page in this way   Old page  http   something com profile php id a amp abc 1  New page  http   something com profile  id a amp abc 1  If you are not satisfied leave a comment for complicated methods

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Tony  your script is ok  but if you have 100 files  Need add this code in all these       include once  scripts php      strip php extension      I think you include a menu in each php file  probably your menu is showed in all your web pages   so you can add these 2 lines of code only in your menu file  This work for me  D

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Here is a simple PHP way that I use  If a page is requested with the  php extension then a new request is made without the  php extension  The  php extension is then no longer shown in the browser s address field     I came up with this solution because none of the many  htaccess suggestions worked for me and it was quicker to implement this in PHP than trying to find out why the  htaccess did not work on my server   Put this at the beginning of each PHP file  preferrably before anything else    include once  scripts php      strip php extension        Then put these functions in the file  scripts php           Strip  php extension from requested URI   function strip php extension            uri     SERVER  REQUEST URI         ext   substr strrchr  uri        1       if   ext     php                url   substr  uri  0  strrpos  uri               redirect  url                       Redirect  Try PHP header redirect  then Java  then http redirect function redirect  url          if   headers sent                   If headers not yet sent   gt  do php redirect          header  Location     url         exit            else              If headers already sent   gt  do javaScript redirect          echo   lt script type  text javascript  gt          echo  window location href     url             echo   lt  script gt              If javaScript is disabled   gt  do html redirect          echo   lt noscript gt          echo   lt meta http-equiv  refresh  content  0  url    url      gt          echo   lt  noscript gt          exit                Obviously you still need to have setup Apache to redirect any request without extension to the file with the extension  The above solution simply checks if the requested URI has an extension  if it does it requests the URI without the extension  Then Apache does the redirect to the file with the extension  but only the requested URI  without the extension  is shown in the browser s address field  The advantage is that all your  href  links in your code can still have the full filename  i e  including the  php extension

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The problem with creating a directory and keeping index php in it is that   your links with menu will stop functioning There will be way too many directories  For eg  there will be a seperate directory for each and every question here on stackoverflow   The solutions are 1  MOD REWRITE  as suggested above  2  use a php code to dynamically include other files in index file  Read a bit more abt it here http   inobscuro com tutorials read 16

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Actually  the simplest way to manipulate this is to   Open a new folder on your server  e g   Data  Put index php  or index html  in it   And then the URL www yoursite com data will read that index php file  If you want to take it further  open a subfolder  e g   List   in it  put another index php in that folder and you can have www yoursite com data list run that PHP file   This way you can have full control over this  very useful for SEO

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Just add an  htaccess file to the root folder of your site  for example   home domains domain com htdocs   with the following content   RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   php -f RewriteRule         1 php   More about how this works in these pages  mod rewrite guide  introduction  using it   reference documentation

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same as Igor but should work without line 2   RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteRule             1 php  NC L

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For those who are still looking for a simple answer to this  You can remove your file extension by using  htaccessbut this solution is just saving the day maybe even not  Because when user copies the URL from address bar or tries to reload or even coming back from history  your standart Apache Router will not be able to realize what are you looking for and throw you a 404 Error  You need a dedicated Router for this purpose to make your app understand what does the URL actually means by saying something Server and File System has no idea about    I leave here my solution for this  This is tested and used many times for my clients and for my projects too  It supports multi language and language detection too  Read Readme file is recommended  It also provides you a good structure to have a tidy project with differenciated language files  you can even have different designs for each language  and separated css js and phpfiles even more like images or whatever you have   Cr8Router - Simple PHP Router

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Remove a file extension through  htaccess   Original URL  http   ravinderrathore herobo com contact php   htaccess rule to remove  php   html  etc  file extensions from URLs   RewriteRule         1 php   After Rewriting  http   ravinderrathore herobo com contact  RewriteEngine on  RewriteCond   THE REQUEST         php               HTTP   RewriteRule  index       index php 1  L QSA   RewriteRule  login success      login success php  L QSA   RewriteRule  contact      contact php  L QSA

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First  verify that the mod rewrite module is installed  Then  be careful to understand how it works  many people get it backwards    You don t hide urls or extensions  What you do is create a NEW url that directs to the old one  for example   The URL to put on your web site will be yoursite com play m asdf   or better yet   yoursite com asdf   Even though the directory asdf doesn t exist  Then with mod rewrite installed you put this in  htaccess  Basically it says  if the requested URL is NOT a file and is NOT a directory  direct it to my script    RewriteEngine On  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d  RewriteRule         play php  L     Almost done - now you just have to write some stuff into your PHP script to parse out the new URL  You want to do this so that the OLD ones work too - what you do is maintain a system by which the variable is always exactly the same OR create a database table that correlates the  SEO friendly URL  with the product id  An example might be    Some-Cool-Video  which equals product ID asdf    The advantage to this  Search engines will index the keywords  Some Cool Video   asdf  Who s going to search for that    I can t give you specifics of how to program this  but take the query string  strip off the end   yoursite com Some-Cool-Video    turns into  asdf    Then set the m variable to this   m asdf   So both URL s will still go to the same product   yoursite com play php m asdf  yoursite com Some-Cool-Video    mod rewrite can do lots of other important stuff too  Google for it and get it activated on your server  it s probably already installed

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just nearly the same with the first answer about  but some more advantage   RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   html -f RewriteRule         1 html  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   php -f RewriteRule         1 php   Just add up if you have a other file-extension in your sites

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