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Asked: May 23, 20262026-05-23T19:20:51+00:00 2026-05-23T19:20:51+00:00

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Hide PHP from user

How do other sites manage to write their URLS without a file extension with GET variables like so:

http://foo.com/somepage?a=hello

but on my site it’s always:

http://foo.com/somepage.php?a=hello

How do they drop the extension and still get it to work?

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-23T19:20:52+00:00

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

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