Remove php extension with htaccess

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Yes  I ve read the Apache manual and searched here  For some reason I simply cannot get this to work  The closest I ve come is having it remove the extension  but it points back to the root directory  I want this to just work in the directory that contains the  htaccess file    I need to do three things with the  htaccess file    I need it to remove the  php  a  I have several pages that use tabs and the URL looks like page php tab - is this possible   b  I have one page that uses a session ID appended to the URL to make sure you came from the right place  www domain com download-software php abcdefg    Is this possible  Also in doing this  do I need to remove   php  from the links in my header nav include file  Should IE   lt a href  support php  gt support lt  a gt   be  lt a href  support  gt support lt  a gt     I would like it to force  www  before every URL  so it s not domain com  but www domain com page  I would like to remove all trailing slashes from pages    I ll keep looking  trying  etc  Would being in a sub directory cause any issues

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Try  RewriteEngine On  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  php -f  RewriteRule         1 php  L

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Here s a method if you want to do it for just one specific file   RewriteRule  about  about php  L    Ref  http   css-tricks com snippets htaccess remove-file-extention-from-urls

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I found 100  working Concept for me     Options is required by Many Hosting Options  MultiViews  RewriteEngine on    For  php  amp   html URL s  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteRule             1 php  NC L  RewriteRule             1 html  NC L    Use this code in Root of your website  htaccess file like    offline - wamp www YourWebDir  online - public html      If it doesn t work correct  then change the settings of your Wamp   Server  1  Left click WAMP icon 2  Apache 3  Apache Modules 4  Left   click rewrite module

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To remove the  php extension from a PHP file for example yoursite com about php to yoursite com about Follow these step   Open  htaccess create new one if not exists  file from root of your website  and add the following code   RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteRule             1 php  NC L    To remove the  html extension from a html file for example yoursite com about html to yoursite com about Follow these step    Open  htaccess create new one if not exists  file from root of your website  and add the following code   RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteRule             1 html  NC L    Reference  How to Remove php Extention from URL

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After changing the parameter AllowOverride from None to All in  etc apache2 apache2 conf  Debian 8   following this  the  htaccess file just must contain   Options  MultiViews AddHandler php5-script php AddType text html php   And it was enough to hide  php extension from files

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Apache mod rewrite  What you re looking for is mod rewrite      Description  Provides a rule-based rewriting engine to rewrite   requested URLs on the fly    Generally speaking  mod rewrite works by matching the requested document against specified regular expressions  then performs URL rewrites internally  within the apache process  or externally  in the clients browser   These rewrites can be as simple as internally translating example com foo into a request for example com foo bar   The Apache docs include a mod rewrite guide and I think some of the things you want to do are covered in it  Detailed mod rewrite guide   Force the www subdomain     I would like it to force  www  before every url  so its not domain com but www domain com page   The rewrite guide includes instructions for this under the Canonical Hostname example   Remove trailing slashes  Part 1      I would like to remove all trailing slashes from pages   I m not sure why you would want to do this as the rewrite guide includes an example for the exact opposite  i e   always including a trailing slash  The docs suggest that removing the trailing slash has great potential for causing issues      Trailing Slash Problem      Description       Every webmaster can sing a song about the problem of the trailing   slash on URLs referencing directories  If they are missing  the server   dumps an error  because if you say   quux foo instead of   quux foo    then the server searches for a file named foo  And because this file   is a directory it complains  Actually it tries to fix it itself in   most of the cases  but sometimes this mechanism need to be emulated by   you  For instance after you have done a lot of complicated URL   rewritings to CGI scripts etc    Perhaps you could expand on why you want to remove the trailing slash all the time   Remove  php extension     I need it to remove the  php   The closest thing to doing this that I can think of is to internally rewrite every request document with a  php extension  i e   example com somepage is instead processed as a request for example com somepage php  Note that proceeding in this manner would would require that each somepage actually exists as somepage php on the filesystem   With the right combination of regular expressions this should be possible to some extent  However  I can foresee some possible issues with index pages not being requested correctly and not matching directories correctly    For example  this will correctly rewrite example com test as a request for example com test php   RewriteEngine  on RewriteRule         1 php   But will make example com fail to load because there is no example com  php  I m going to guess that if you re removing all trailing slashes  then picking a request for a directory index from a request for a filename in the parent directory will become almost impossible  How do you determine a request for the directory  foobar    example com foobar   from a request for a file called foobar  which is actually foobar php   example com foobar   It might be possible if you used the RewriteBase directive  But if you do that then this problem gets way more complicated as you re going to require RewriteCond directives to do filesystem level checking if the request maps to a directory or a file   That said  if you remove your requirement of removing all trailing slashes and instead force-add trailing slashes the  no  php extension  problem becomes a bit more reasonable     Turn on the rewrite engine RewriteEngine  on   If the request doesn t end in  php  Case insensitive  continue processing rules RewriteCond   REQUEST URI     php   NC    If the request doesn t end in a slash continue processing the rules RewriteCond   REQUEST URI          Rewrite the request with a  php extension  L means this is the  Last  rule RewriteRule         1 php  L    This still isn t perfect -- every request for a file still has  php appended to the request internally  A request for  hi txt  will put this in your error logs    Tue Oct 26 18 12 52 2010   error   client 71 61 190 56  script   var www test peopleareducks com rewrite hi txt php  not found or unable to stat   But there is another option  set the DefaultType and DirectoryIndex directives like this    DefaultType application x-httpd-php DirectoryIndex index php index html   Update 2013-11-14 - Fixed the above snippet to incorporate nicorellius s observation  Now requests for hi txt  and anything else  are successful  requests to example com test will return the processed version of test php  and index php files will work again   I must give credit where credit is due for this solution as I found it Michael J  Radwins Blog by searching Google for php no extension apache   Remove trailing slashes  Some searching for apache remove trailing slashes brought me to some Search Engine Optimization pages  Apparently some Content Management Systems  Drupal in this case  will make content available with and without a trailing slash in URls  which in the SEO world will cause your site to incur a duplicate content penalty  Source  The solution seems fairly trivial  using mod rewrite we rewrite on the condition that the requested resource ends in a   and rewrite the URL by sending back the 301 Permanent Redirect HTTP header   Here s his example which assumes your domain is blamcast net and allows the the request to optionally be prefixed with www     get rid of trailing slashes RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www   blamcast  net   NC  RewriteRule         http     HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L    Now we re getting somewhere  Lets put it all together and see what it looks like    Mandatory www   no  php  and no trailing slashes  This assumes the domain is foobar com and it is running on the standard port 80     Process all files as PHP by default DefaultType application x-httpd-php   Fix sub-directory requests by allowing  index  as a DirectoryIndex value DirectoryIndex index index html    Force the domain to load with the www subdomain prefix   If the request doesn t start with www    RewriteCond   HTTP HOST      www  foobar  com  NC    And the site name isn t empty RewriteCond   HTTP HOST          Finally rewrite the request  end of rules  don t escape the output  and force a 301 redirect RewriteRule                 http   www foobar com  1  L R NE    get rid of trailing slashes RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www   foobar  com   NC  RewriteRule         http     HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L    The  R  flag is described in the RewriteRule directive section  Snippet      redirect R   code   force redirect  Prefix Substitution with   http   thishost  thisport    which makes the new URL a URI  to force   a external redirection  If no code is given  a HTTP response of 302    MOVED TEMPORARILY  will be returned    Final Note  I wasn t able to get the slash removal to work successfully  The redirect ended up giving me infinite redirect loops  After reading the original solution closer I get the impression that the example above works for them because of how their Drupal installation is configured  He mentions specifically      On a normal Drupal site  with clean URLs enabled  these two addresses   are basically interchangeable   In reference to URLs ending with and without a slash  Furthermore       Drupal uses a file called  htaccess to tell your web server how to   handle URLs  This is the same file that enables Drupal s clean URL   magic  By adding a simple redirect command to the beginning of your    htaccess file  you can force the server to automatically remove any   trailing slashes

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Try this The following code will definitely work  RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   THE REQUEST            php  NC  RewriteRule     1  NC L R   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  php -f RewriteRule     REQUEST URI  php  NC L

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Gumbo s answer in the Stack Overflow question How to hide the  html extension with Apache mod rewrite should work fine   Re 1  Change the  html to  php  Re a   Yup  that s possible  just add  tab to the URL   Re b   That s possible using QSA  Query String Append   see below   This should also work in a sub-directory path   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  php -f RewriteRule      php    REQUEST FILENAME  php  QSA L

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If you re coding in PHP and want to remove  php so you can have a URL like   http   yourdomain com blah   -    which points to  blah php  This is all you need    lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt      RewriteRule         http     HTTP HOST   1  R 301 L   lt  IfModule gt

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I ve ended up with the following working code  RewriteEngine on  RewriteCond   THE REQUEST            php  NC  RewriteRule     1  NC L R   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  php -f RewriteRule     REQUEST URI  php  NC L

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If your url in PHP like http   yourdomain com demo php than comes like    http   yourdomain com demo  This is all you need       create file  htaccess  RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f  RewriteRule             1 html  NC L  RewriteRule             1 php  NC L

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Here is the code that I used to hide the  php extension from the filename      hide  php extension   To redirect  dir foo php to  dir foo RewriteCond   THE REQUEST    A-Z  3   s         php  NC  RewriteRule    1  R 301 L NC    Note  R 301 is for permanent redirect and is recommended to use for SEO purpose  However if one wants just a temporary redirect replace it with just R

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In addition to other answers above     You may also try this  to remove  php extensions completly from your file and to avoid infinite loop     RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteCond   THE REQUEST    A-Z  3   s         php  NC  RewriteRule    1  R 301 L  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  php -f RewriteRule            1 php  NC L    This code will work in Root  htaccess   Be sure to change the RewriteBase if you want to place this to a htaccess file in sub directory   Edit    On apache 2 4 and later  you can also use the END flag to prevent infinite loop error  The following example works same as the above on apache 2 4     RewriteEngine on  RewriteRule        php    1  R L  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  php -f RewriteRule             1 php  NC END

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Not sure why the other answers didn t work for me but this code I found did   RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteRule             1 php  NC L    That is all that is in my htaccess and example com page shows example com page php

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The following code works fine for me   RewriteEngine on  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   php -f  RewriteRule         1 php

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