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Shalin Shah
Shalin Shah

Reputation: 8183

How to get rid of .php extension in .htaccess

I am trying to do a mod-rewrite in my .htaccess to get rid of the ".php" file extension.

So basically, here is my site right now: http://www.example.com/about.php

Here is what I want it to be: http://www.example.com/about

Is there a way to do this in my .htaccess using mod-rewrite? Thanks so much!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1723

Answers (1)

Shalin Shah
Shalin Shah

Reputation: 8183

I figured it out! If you ever want this to work for a ".html" extension, you should change the ".php" to ".html"

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

The line with !-d checks that it's not a directory, the line with -f checks that the requested file is a .php file.

To display this though, you need to link to it like this: 

<a href="http://www.example.com/about"></a>

Instead of:

<a href="http://www.example.com/about.php"></a>

Because then it will just display the URL as about.php.

Hope this helped anyone looking to do this!

Upvotes: 1

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