Question

I added this to my htaccess on my local mamp server:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

This makes URLs work without the .php extension and it works fine. However if I go on a page that does not exist I get the “Internal Server Error” not the 404 page not found one…

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

That is because the rule match, conds 1 and 2 are all true. You need to stop the loop if the URL already contains .php so

RewriteRule   ^(.*)(?<!\.php)$      $1.php [L,QSA]

This means match .* so long as the end anchor isn’t preceded by .php