Question

I have a static website with files like index.php, blog.php, contact.php etc

How can I get my website addresses to work so that http://www.site.com/blog takes you to blog.php?

I think htaccess could do this for me, but am a php noob!

The only alternative I currently use is to create individual folders called ‘blog, contact etc’ which contains another index.php file inside it

thanks

Answer 1

Yes, you can use mod_rewrite to rewrite all urls. The following will rewrite all non-existing files and folders to requested filename .php:

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

Visiting /blog and it’s not an existing directory will cause this rule to rewrite it as /blog.php.