Remove .php extension with .htaccess

Question

Yes, I\'ve read the Apache manual and searched here. For some reason I simply cannot get this to work. The closest I\'ve come is having it remove the extension, but it point

Answer 1

In addition to other answers above,

You may also try this to remove .php extensions completly from your file and to avoid infinite loop :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [NC,L]

This code will work in Root/.htaccess, Be sure to change the RewriteBase if you want to place this to a htaccess file in sub directory.

Edit :

On apache 2.4 and later, you can also use the END flag to prevent infinite loop error. The following example works same as the above on apache 2.4 ,

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ /$1 [R,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ /$1.php [NC,END]