Question

I have the following code in my .htacess but it didn’t work right. Is it because mod-rewrite is no “on”, if so, how can i check?

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\$ $1.php [nc]

I wanted to rename my address, example:

http://www.abc.com -> http://www.abc.com

http://abc.com -> http://www.abc.com

http://www.abc.com/123.html -> http://www.abc.com/123

http://www.abc.com/12-12-12.html -> http://www.abc.com/12-12-12

http://subdomain.abc.com/123.html -> http://subdomain.abc.com/123

Basically removing the extension and ensuring that its www is intact.

Edited:

It was rewrote into

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond % ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*).php $1

but still not working

Answer 1

Step 1.

Change all of your links to have the .html removed from links. Make sure you have Multiviews turned off:

Options -Multiviews

Step 2.

You need rules to redirect the browser when there is a www missing from the hostname:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Step 3.

You need rules to redirect the browser when a URL is requested with .html or .php with the extensions removed:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD)\ /([^\ ]+)\.(php|html?)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ /%2 [L,R=301]

Step 4.

You need rules to internally rewrite the URI if the request was actually for a php or html file:

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

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

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

.htaccess

So all in all, you should have these rules in your htaccess (ditch any rules you may already have trying to solve this issue):

# Make sure Multiviews is off
Options -Multiviews

# turn on rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On

# Redirect requests that are missing www and not a subdomain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

# Redirect if requests is for a .htm, .html, or .php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD)\ /([^\ ]+)\.(php|html?)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ /%2 [L,R=301]

# rewrite to the proper extension if such a file exists
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1.php [L]

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

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

So altogether:

• if browser URL address bar says: http://example.com/index.html it will be redirected to http://www.example.com/index
• if browser URL address bar says: http://www.example.com/index it will be shown the content at http://www.example.com/index.html (or index.php if that exists). Address bar remains unchanged.
• if browser URL address bar says: http://foo.example.com/images/image.png you will see the image at /images/image.png. Address bar remains unchanged.
• if browser URL address bar says: http://foo.example.com/path/foo/bar.php it will be redirected to http://foo.example.com/path/foo/bar
• if browser URL address bar says: http://foo.example.com/path/foo/bar it will be shown the content at http://foo.example.com/path/foo/bar.php. Address bar remains unchanged.