Question

I am trying to remove php extension from url, But its not working for me. I am using Windows 7, with apache2.2.17 and php5.3. Now I have configured it as

in .htaccess file

OPTIONS -Indexes
IndexIgnore *

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]

in httpd.conf enabled mod_rewrite as

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

and

<Directory "D:/Apache/htdocs">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

in php.ini

expose_php = On

After making these configuration still i am not able to remove php extension from url in my windows machine but same thing is working in ubuntu server.

Is there anything I am missing here?

Answer 1

This might answer your question:

RewriteRule ^/([^-]*)$ /$1.php

It works for root catalog.

RewriteRule ^catalog/([^-]*)$ catalog/$1.php

Or you can write automatic script:

RewriteRule ^/([^-])/([^-])$ /$1/$2.php

But this is for “httpd.conf” file.

Where: ([^-]*) means variable; $1, $2 means converted to variable i.e.

http://www.verity.com/foo/bar => verity.com/foo/bar.php