Question

I need to rewrite all the files in a directory and essentially make their extentions css instead of php. I want to do with with a .htaccess file within that specific directory.

What is the correct method of doing so and are there any special PHP headers I need to set the ensure the file is read as a .css file correctly?

Answer 1

I think that you rather want requests of *.css to be rewritten internaly to *.php. So try this:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(foo/.*)\.css$ $1.php [L] 

While foo is here the specific directory.

You now should explicitly declare the output as text/css using the following at the begin of the PHP script:

<?php header('Content-Type: text/css;charset=<your charset>'); 

Replace <your charset> by whatever charset/encoding you are using (probably ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8).