How can I make the URL search engine friendly?

Question

I want to cahange mysite.com/profile.php into mysite.com/profile

I wrote the htacess file as

RewriteEngine On 

RewriteRule ^profile/?$ profile.php [NC,L]

and placed in root directory. It doesn't work. I use the apache server. What is wrong with my program?

Answer 1

Try something like this instead:

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

That way you dont have to do it for each individual URL.

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