.htaccess question

jrahma

Hi,

I am trying the URL rewriting for the first time on mysql server (Dreamhost).

I have create .htaccess file with the following:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^contact$ /contact.php [L]
RewriteRule ^team$ /team.php [L]

I suppose this will show www.mydomain.com/contact.php as www.mydomain.com/contact (without the extension) and that's what I want..

and it's working fine.. when I type www.mydomain.com/contact I am getting the page BUT.... I also get www.mydomain.com/contact.php when I type? so is there anyway NOT to show it with .php and just /contact?

hope i explained it well..

bradgrafelman

jrahma;10990762 wrote:
I am trying the URL rewriting for the first time on mysql server

Well that's interesting, considering that MySQL has no such thing as "URL rewriting" (or any type of "URL" at all). Perhaps you meant an Apache server?

jrahma;10990762 wrote:
I also get www.mydomain.com/contact.php when I type?

Well yes, why wouldn't you expect that? "/contact.php" doesn't match any of your RewriteRules, so Apache is just going to treat the request like it would any other request and look for that file.

jrahma;10990762 wrote:
so is there anyway NOT to show it with .php and just /contact?

Why does it matter if someone specifically requests "contact.php" and gets it? Regardless, one option would be to create another RewriteRule that matches that query and rewrites it to "/contact" using the [R]edirect flag... or just redirect the request to some 404 error page if you'd like.

jrahma

I changed to the following:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^home$ index.php [R=302,NC]
RewriteRule ^contact$ /contact.php [R=302,NC]
RewriteRule ^team$ /team.php [R=302,NC]
RewriteRule ^about$ about.php [R=302,NC]

now for example I get:

Not Found

The requested URL /home/rmcbahrain/rmc.bh/index.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

when I try www.rmc.bh/home which should be (index.php)!