Question

I have the following htaccess file, which hides the php extension and forces all URLs to use www:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   Options +FollowSymLinks
   Options +Indexes
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

For the first part the credit goes to this answer and the second one to this answer.

This works perfect in most cases, however there is one problem. When a user tries to go to http://example.com/foo (or instead of “foo”, whatever other page) it redirects to http://www.example.com/foo.php .

How can I make it redirect to http://www.example.com/foo , that is, whithout the .php?

Answer 1

You just need to change the order of your rules. First external redirect then the internal one. Have your code like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   Options +FollowSymLinks
   Options +Indexes
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>

I have tested it and works fine on my end.