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Drew
Drew

Reputation: 836

.htaccess redirect html to php and access to php files without .php extension

I wish to accomplish 2 things with this .htaccess file.

1) All requests to .html point to .php eg. user goes to: http://www.mywebsite.com/contact.html Browser loads: http://www.mywebsite.com/contact.php

2) Request to http://www.mywebsite.com/contact will load the contact.php (This should apply to all pages not just the contact page.

Here is my .htaccess file. 

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]

To be honest I have no idea what these are doing. I blended them together from a mismash of articles I read. Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3333

Answers (3)

Shawn G.
Shawn G.

Reputation: 622

If you are wanting all of your .html files to point to .php file a simple way of doing so would be

RewriteRule ([\w\d\-_]+)(\.html)? $1.php [L]

This allows you also to use sub-directories

contact.html would redirect to contact.php

/subdir/page.html would redirect to /subdir/page.php and so on

Upvotes: 0

landons
landons

Reputation: 9547

Try something like this. Follow the comment thread for security implications, but this is what you're asking to do

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Redirect HTML to PHP
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1.php [L]

# Otherwise, try PHP
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]

# Lastly, fallback to error page
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . 404.php [L]

Upvotes: 4

Ionut Flavius Pogacian
Ionut Flavius Pogacian

Reputation: 4801

I need to explain something to you about htaccess file roles;

In this example, htaccess will try and match patterns, as you need in your example;

If a pattern is matched, then some action will happen;

you mark with () all the data than you need to be extracted from the url

For each rule, the first () will have the $1 id, the seccond () will have $2 and so on

if $1 is 'help' it will load the 'helpme.php' file maybe, and not the 'help.php' file; it will load the file that you want it to be loaded;

using $1, $2 ... you can pass parameters and values to the real/translated url request

in my example, i wanted to always use the index.php file, you will use whatever file you need

Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z-]+)$ index.php?action=$1 [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^(member)-([0-9-]+)$ index.php?action=member&id=$2 [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z-]+)/([a-zA-Z-]+)-([0-9-]+)$ index.php?action=$1&saction=$2&sid=$3 [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z-]+)/([0-9-]+)$ index.php?action=$1&id=$2 [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^([0-9-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/(.*).html$ index.php?action=details&id=$1&p1=$2&p2=$3&p3=$4 [NC,L]

Upvotes: 0

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