Remove .php from urls with htaccess

Question

EDIT: current .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

## hide .php extension snippet

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Answer 1

On apache 2.4 and later, You can use the following Rule with END flag to remove .php extension from urls.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ /$1 [NC,L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)/?$ /$1.php [END]

Answer 2

try this.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

if this not work then your sever do not have mod_rewrite activated or support url rewriting.

Answer 3

Try this code for hiding .php (will work both ways):

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

## don't touch /forum URIs
RewriteRule ^forums/ - [L,NC]

## hide .php extension snippet

# To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L]

# To internally forward /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [L]

Answer 4

This should work

Options -Indexes +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine on

DirectoryIndex index.php

# REDIRECT Force requests for named index files to drop the index file filename, and force non-www to avoid redirect loop
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]*/)*index\.(html?|php[45]?)(\?[^\ ]*)?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]*/)*)index\.(html?|php[45]?)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]+)/([^\.]+)\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([^.]+)\.php$ http://example.com/$1/$2 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^\.]+)\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([^.]+)\.php$ http://example.com/$1/$2/$3 [R=301,L]

# REDIRECT www to non-wwww
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

# REWRITE url to filepath
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([^/.]+)$ /$1/$2.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([^/.]+)$ /$1/$2/$3.php [L]

Answer 5

Here is the simplest syntax I have found, which would result as below:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?PrivacyPolicy$ legal.php?mode=privacy [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^Report/([0-9]+)$ report.php?id=$1 [NC,L] 

Results:

1. PrivacyPolicy to legal.php?mode=privacy
2. Report/55 to report.php?id=55