Question

I’m using htaccess below to remove .php from URL but it won’t work.

http://www.me.com/index.php should read http://www.me.com/index

Any reason why?

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

I looked at these examples too but no luck:

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Answer 1

I think your missing the point – it doesnt change/rewrite the URL – it adds .php to the URL you request, so when you request http://www.example.com/index it checks the requested filename is not a directory (!-d) and then checks a valid PHP file exists (-f). Then rewrites the request (not the URL) to request the index.php file.

From the documentation for mod_rewrite this is the description

Provides a rule-based rewriting engine to rewrite requested URLs on the fly