I'm trying to remove the ".php" extension from the URLs of a site using this code (which I admit I copy/pasted from other questions here) in the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
Other lines of the .htaccess file do work, for instance, I have an error redirect and:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
So, I know the .htaccess file is in service in general.
I don't know what could go wrong in this area, so I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting. Does anyone have pointers?
Thanks in advance.
Given that your domain account is /home/youraccount/public_html, your .htaccess would be inside the public_html folder with the following content:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# First we redirect the www to non-www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# now we redirect phpless URLs internally to the php
# if folder does not exist
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# but the file exists and ends with .php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
# redirect to name.php
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ $1.php [L]
NOTE: If you have more rules this may conflict so I would have to look at the rest of your rule but basically the above should work as expected.
You will be able to access both:
domain.com/index
and
domain.com/index/
And it would redirect to your file index.php.