URL Rewriting/Redirecting/Restricting on Multiple Conditions using .htaccess

Question

Server Version : Apache/2.4.18 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2e PHP/7.0.8

I realize this question has been asked numerous time, and while I have solution in parts, I do not have

Answer 1

With some some refactoring your rules need to be in a different order like this:

ErrorDocument 404 default
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /myproject/

## hide .php extension
## To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L,NE]

## remove special characters and clean the urls
RewriteRule ^property/(\d+)/?$ views/propertydetail.php?property_id=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteRule ^user/(\d+)/?$ views/viewprofile.php?profile_id=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

## hide views folder
RewriteRule ^$ views/ [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(?!view/)(.*)$ views/$1 [L,NC]

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