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phpurlurl-rewritingsearch-engine

Search URL with no file extension

I have made a search engine for my website and I want to know how to make the URL like Google Search or YouTube where it has...

http://sitename.com/search?q=search+query

I can only get it like this...

http://sitename.com/search.php?q=search+query

I want to find out how to take off the '.php'. putting it in a folder called search just mean it's like this...

http://sitename.com/search/?q=search+query

Hope you know what I mean and have enough information to help. Thanks.

Solution

  • Put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory or in httpd.conf:

    Options +MultiViews

    Once that is done apache will support:

    http://sitename.com/search?q=search+query

    by executing search.php