Comments on: Removing file extension via .htaccess

By: Kavita

Kavita — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:52:55 +0000

Thanks for the tips and codes to hide file extension. URLs look more SEO friendly hiding extensions. Nice blog.

By: nerdess

nerdess — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:39:55 +0000

ah, and one other note: if you happen to have an edge case like this where the directory the file is in and the file name have the same name like e.g. so:

plugins\skills\skills.html

the engine gets confused. you need to rename skills.html to sth else like skills-temp.html and then need to add an exception to .htaccess like so:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1 !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1/ !-d

#this is the exception
RewriteRule ^plugins/skills/$ /plugins/skills-temp.html [L]

RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)$ /$1.html [L]

there might be a more elegant solution to solve this edge case where you don’t need to define an exception in .htaccess but i have not found it yet and to be honest that whole rewrite rules thing hurts my brain ;-)

cheers
sissi

By: nerdess

nerdess — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:18:20 +0000

hi adway

this code worked for me:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)$ /$1.html [L]

By: Adway

Adway — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:16:52 +0000

Yo Man!

The code is not working for me. I still get 404. This is the line from Apache log:

127.0.0.1 – - [18/Mar/2011:02:42:45 +0530] “GET /t HTTP/1.1″ 404 1161 “-” “Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01″

Somebody please help!

By: Ambrish

Ambrish — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:47:14 +0000

i got below error

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, admin@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

made a file name “.htaccess”

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

and put in same folder but it show above error
what should i do?

By: Zee

Zee — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:44:04 +0000

Hey Randy,

The .htaccess file needs to go in the same directory as the file. It will work from the top down. Meaning, if you have the .htaccess in a certain directory, it will affect any other sub files/folders within it.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:09:09 +0000

Hi I’ve been searching for hours and still can’t make it to work.. where would I create a htaccess file? the same directory as my pages? C:/wamp/www/folder/index.php
I get Internal Server Error. What should I do?

By: Cycron

Cycron — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:26:00 +0000

I tried the following code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ $1.html

And it makes so http://website.com/folder/file.html works, http://website.com/folder/file/ works, but http://website.com/folder/file takes me to http://website.com/file/

I’d like it to work without the slash and extension too, how do I do this?

By: Mr. Concept

Mr. Concept — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:43:03 +0000

Great tip, I am trying to get it to work. So if I understand this correctly, we have to delete the extensions from the webpages for this to work?

By: Micky

Micky — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:43:05 +0000

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

This code is not working, what might be the reason?
can anyone help me. M just trying to remove the extension .php. But its showing page not found…. Pl Pl Pl Help……..