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Asked: 2026-05-23T08:47:37+00:00

I have this htaccess setup on my clients site, they use godaddy RewriteEngine On

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I have this htaccess setup on my clients site, they use godaddy

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

it worked fine on my MAMP but does not seem to work on the server

they have setup a subdomain like demo.example.com and the htaccess exists in the demo folder but I get 404 trying to get to page like demo.example.com/test but demo.example.com/test.php works fine so this tells me the htaccess is not work. does anyone know what I need to do to make this work ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try:

    1) Add this line into your .htaccess: Options +FollowSymlinks

    2) Add leading slash before $1, e.g. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1.php [L,QSA]

    P.S. There are some “rumours” that GoDaddy may not pick up changes in .htaccess file straight away.

    I would also suggest to define custom 404 error handler (simple PHP script) that may help with debugging this (put this line into your .htaccess):

    ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

    404.php (as simple as this)

    <?php
Echo "404\n";
phpinfo(INFO_VARIABLES);

    The details there may help identify the issue.

    UPDATE:

    We have a domain name & hosting that we do not use which is about to expire. So I have logged in and tested these rules myself. Got it working straight away. Here is the setup I have:

    • Apache/1.3.33
    • Hosting Configuration: 2.1
    • PHP 5.x (did not bothered to check exact version)
    • Data Center: US Regional

    .htaccess was already present and had only 1 line 9possibly left over from the site that was there originally):

    addhandler x-httpd-php5 .phtml

    These lines were added to .htaccess:

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

    I have created simple php file to check if it works. Called it echo.php. Then I have tried these URLs:

    • http://www.example.com/abcd — saw error page (as expected)
    • http://www.example.com/echo — saw my page — echo.php (as expected)

    The full physical path to the echo.php is: /home/content/b/u/y/buyxxxxxxx/html/echo.php; ftp/website root is /home/content/b/u/y/buyxxxxxxx/html/

    Try this simple setup. DO not do anything complex until you solve this issue.

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