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denski
denski

Reputation: 2040

.htaccess hide .PHP and rewrite URL

I've set up a .htaccess file to rewrite the url example.com/foo too example.com/foo.php I can separately get the URL to redirect to error.php if it ends in .php, but I can't seem to do both together.

I've seen other sites hide .php and I want to understand how to do that.

Here's what I've tried:

//.htaccess file

RewriteEngine On    # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteRule    ^([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/?$    $1.php    [NC,L]
RewriteRule    ^([A-Za-z0-9-_]+).php?$    error.php    [NC,L]

NOTES

Here is what worked for me. I'm going to leave it hear for reference as I'm not sure it all necessarily is necessary.

    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteRule (.*)index$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/error [R=404]
    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^\w+\ /(.*)\.php(\?.*)?\ HTTP/
    RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/error [R=301]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
    RewriteRule .* $0.php
    ErrorDocument 404 /error.php 
    ErrorDocument 301 /error.php

Upvotes: 0

Views: 207

Answers (2)

arkascha
arkascha

Reputation: 42935

Considering your comment to your own question it seems this is what you are looking for: If the request targets something to what a php script exist with the same name but an added .php file name extension, then internally rewrite to that. Rewrite to /error.php in all other cases, if the request resource does not directly exist in the file system. 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ /error.php [L]

And a general hint: you should always prefer to place such rules inside the http servers host configuration instead of using dynamic configuration files (".htaccess"). Those files are notoriously error prone, hard to debug and they really slow down the server. They are only provided as a last option for situations where you do not have control over the host configuration (read: really cheap hosting service providers) or if you have an application that relies on writing its own rewrite rules (which is an obvious security nightmare).

Upvotes: 1

gmc
gmc

Reputation: 3990

I do it using this two rules:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

Upvotes: 1

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