Question

Sorry for the somewhat cryptic title! I’ll try to explain. I have the following in my .htacess:

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

So users can type domain.com/foo/bar and domain.com/foo/bar.php is served. Of course, typing domain.com/foo/bar.php also loads the same page.

So, in Google Webmaster Tools (under HTML Suggestions), Google thinks that i have duplicated all my meta descriptions and title tags as it sees bar and bar.php as two different files. I am worried Google will penalise this “duplicate content”. What should i do? I am sure im not the first one to have this issue, but i am struggling to find related questions/answers.

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

The answer i used (as per my original comment) from here which solved my problem

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^.]+\.)+php?\ 
HTTP RewriteRule (.+)\.php?$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f 
RewriteRule ^(([^/]*/)*[^/.]+)$ /$1.php [L]