Question

I know there are a few answers reagrding this topic, however i need something more 🙂

• I need all my www pages to redirect
  to non-www
• I need all my index.php to be removed
• I need .php to be removed from all
  the pages (site.com/sss.php to
  site.com/sss)
• Is there a difference between
  http://site.com/sss/ and
  http://site.com/sss (the slash) ?

Answer 1

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /

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

    # 2. index.php to /
    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^POST
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://example.com/ [R=301,L]

    # 3. remove trailing slashes if it's not a directory
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^\example\.com$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    # 3. remove .php extension from files
    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /([^/]+/)*[^.]+\.php(\?[^\ ]*)?\ HTTP/
    RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^.]+)\.php$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    # 3. internally rewrite to .php if a file exists
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
    RewriteRule (.+) /$1.php [L]
</IfModule>

4.Yes, the added slash means that the resource is a directory, whereas the absence of the slash means the resource is a file without an extension.