Hide .php extension

jkatcher

Hi all --

Does anyone know how to hide the .php extension in a URL so that if sometimes in:

http://www.mysite.com/page1

instead of

http://www.mysite.com/page1.php

it will take them to /page1.php?

I found a lot having to do with apache but was wondering if there was a PHP function that you knew that might do that? Thanks!

planetsim

Well this is a Web Server issue not PHP, since PHP gets called by the web server when a file is to be parsed by the PHP Engine. What you want is mod_rewrite so something like this

untested

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)$ $1.php [NC]

Of course you may want to check the file actually exists and that it is a file and not a directory.

jkatcher

okay, great...where would i put that piece of code? can you give me an example?

thorpe

you need to put it in a .htaccess file. you might want to read up a little first on what mod_rewrite is, and how it works.

nagaraja

hi where we should keep that htaccess file? actually that above code is not working for me thats why i am asking . Can anyone help me..

scrupul0us

http://www.theseoguru.com/articles/how-does-htaccess-works.php

http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/

nagaraja

can anyone please give me the right code for hiding .php entension in the URL

means
http://www.example.com/index

instead of http:// www.example.com/index.php

Weedpacket

See the reply just above yours.