.htaccess not removing .php extension?

[FatalLulz]

Hi,

I have a problem with my .htaccess file. It's removing .html extensions fine, how ever I can't get it to remove .php extensions from links. For example, instead of going to siteurl.com/client/order.php I want it to be siteurl.com/client/order

This is what I have in my .htaccess file;

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

But sadly it's not quite working. It worked fine on the old server I hosted my site on, how ever it's not quite working on my new one. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Droppy]

Not very pro with URL Rewrite, but check this out:

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URL Rewrite generator, perhaps you can take something from there.

 

[MentaL]

make sure "allowoverride" is enabled on the server.

 

[FatalLulz]

Allowoverride is enabled and set to all (within my public_html folder) - Restarted Apache to update it and no errors were logged so that should be fine but still isn't resolving.

Tried a few different ways in coding the removal of the .php extension and none were successful yet

 

[Superfun]

Try the following:

RewriteEngine On


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ /$1.php [L]


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1html -f
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ /$1.html [L]

 

[FatalLulz]

Try the following:

Nope. Realised, my server only runs allowoverride in safe mode only can't make it to all. I was told to use mod_rewrite but I've not a clue when it comes to .htaccess file.

 

[jbeitz107]

Did you restart your web server after you made changes to the htaccess?

Also don't know if this helps but, here is my old version before I started to use IIS

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /$1.php [L,QSA]

 

[FatalLulz]

Did you restart your web server after you made changes to the htaccess?

Also don't know if this helps but, here is my old version before I started to use IIS

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /$1.php [L,QSA]

Yes. Purged site cache and all. And doesn't work either. I think I'll have to generate each page rule on it's own.

 

[s-p-n]

I don't know what you want to happen if /foo exists as a file, or if both qux.html and qux.php exist, so I decided to make a script that says,

If the request_filename does not exist as-is, but does exist with '.php' appended to it, than redirect to the request_filename with '.php' appended to it.
If the request_filename does not exist as-is, but does exist with '.html' appended to it, then redirect to the request_filename with '.html' appended to it.

Since the .php rewrite rules happen first, then it redirects to the .php one first if both .html and .php files exist. However, if a file exists called baz, and a file called baz.html, and a file called baz.php, then the script goes to baz.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /ht-test


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


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

So assuming a directory structure like,

/
 - ht-test/
 - - .htaccess
 - - foo.html
 - - bar.php
 - - baz
 - - baz.html
 - - baz.php
 - - qux.html
 - - qux.php
 - - test/
 - - - foo.html
 - - - bar.html
 - - - bar.php.php

Here are some example request situations:

/ht-test/foo        -> /ht-test/foo.html
/ht-test/bar        -> /ht-test/bar.php
/ht-test/baz        -> /ht-test/baz
/h../qux            -> /h../qux.php
/h../qux.html       -> /h../qux.html
/h../qux.php        -> /h../qux.php
/h../test/bar       -> /h../test/bar.html
/h../test/bar.php   -> /h../test/bar.php.php

Now, if we created the file, /ht-test/test/bar.php, the last two redirects would change like so:

/h../test/bar       -> /h../test/bar.php
/h../test/bar.php   -> /h../test/bar.php

I hope that's your intended behavior.

If this script doesn't work for you, then that's weird.. Make sure you have RewriteBase defined explicitly. By looking at the other answers and your original code, it kind of looks like you would've had it working by now.. Maybe there's a setting in httpd.conf you need to change to get htaccess to work properly. Are you using Apache 2.2+ or are you using a version less than 2.2?