htaccess remove .php extension, index.php AND add trailing slash

Question

This is for basic HTML/PHP pages, no query strings, etc.. I have searched high and low and find resources for removing the \'index.php\' from the URI, or removing \'.php\' a

Answer 1

I got this from a rather helpful chap on a forum once - never fully understood it, and there is one caveat; it implies no trailing slash unless the request is a directory.

However, I thought it was worth posting - a guru out there may easily spot the fix!?

# remove .php; use THE_REQUEST to prevent infinite loops
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ (.*)\.php\ HTTP
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1 [R=301]

# remove index
RewriteRule (.*)index$ $1 [R=301]

# remove slash if not directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
RewriteRule (.*)/ $1 [R=301]

# add .php to access file, but don't redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]

Answer 2

You can try this in your htaccess file:

Options +MultiViews

But it depends on wheter it is enabled by your webserver. Also, do note that htaccess files are specific to Apache webservers, so it won't work if you're using something else.