Question

I’m trying to make my links a little easier to write, without the .php.

My rewrite rule is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ([a-z]+)$ $1.php

This is the first .htaccess I wrote myself, but it doesn’t seem to work.
I’m good with RegExp. And I don’t see the issue here.

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Make sure mod_rewrite is enabled in apache config as well as AllowOverride All

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">

    AllowOverride all
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from all

</Directory>

To get it workign in wamp
Click on wamp icon in systray
Go to apache
then click on httpd.conf

Search the file for mod_rewrite.so. If that line is commented (#) uncomment it.
It should look like

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Then look for something like

<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">

You should find a AllowOverride none Change it to AllowOverride all
Restart your wamp server

Then set your .htaccess to nickb suggestion

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

If it still doesn’t work just do a search in the httpd.conf for AllowOverride none and change them all to AllowOverride all, as there may be a couple