Remove .php extension with .htaccess

.htaccess
Dirty Bird Design picture Dirty Bird Design · Oct 26, 2010 · Viewed 250.1k times · Source

Yes, I've read the Apache manual and searched here. For some reason I simply cannot get this to work. The closest I've come is having it remove the extension, but it points back to the root directory. I want this to just work in the directory that contains the .htaccess file.

I need to do three things with the .htaccess file.

  1. I need it to remove the .php

    a. I have several pages that use tabs and the URL looks like page.php#tab - is this possible?

    b. I have one page that uses a session ID appended to the URL to make sure you came from the right place, www.domain.com/download-software.php?abcdefg.

Is this possible? Also in doing this, do I need to remove ".php" from the links in my header nav include file? Should IE "<a href="support.php">support</a>" be <a href="support">support</a>?

  1. I would like it to force "www" before every URL, so it's not domain.com, but www.domain.com/page.
  2. I would like to remove all trailing slashes from pages.

I'll keep looking, trying, etc. Would being in a sub directory cause any issues?

Answer

Pekka picture Pekka · Oct 26, 2010

Gumbo's answer in the Stack Overflow question How to hide the .html extension with Apache mod_rewrite should work fine.

Re 1) Change the .html to .php

Re a.) Yup, that's possible, just add #tab to the URL.

Re b.) That's possible using QSA (Query String Append), see below.

This should also work in a sub-directory path:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule !.*\.php$ %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php [QSA,L]

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