Question

Is there a way to hide the fact that I’m using PHP from my users? I wanted to do this for two reasons:

• 1) So the links in the address bar look cleaner (like here on stackoverflow)
• 2) To prevent potential hackers of knowing immediately what to look for

Is point 2 even realistic or will a hacker know what I’m using anyway? I’m using nginx with php5-fpm.

Answer 1

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

http://eisabainyo.net/weblog/2007/08/19/removing-file-extension-via-htaccess/