Question

I want to run my PHP web pages on an apache web server without the .php extension. So I added the following code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/?.*\..*$) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.php [NC]

in the .htaccess file. This solves my problem but another problem arises. I cannot view the content of any directory (i.e. the file contained in the directory). Please provide me an alternate RewriteRule without this problem.

Answer 1

You need to make sure that the request URI points to an existing resource if you append the.php to the end of it:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/?.*\..*$) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.php [NC]

the line RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f checks if a “.php” is appended to the requested URI, it mapes to an existing file (-f).