Clean (but clever) URLs

[Mutley]

At the moment I have the following .htaccess setup:

 

mysite.com/contact

it goes to

mysite.com/contact.php

 

Which is simple, but how would I do it so it also works with a trailing slash, e.g.:

 

mysite.com/contact/    and mysite.com/contact

goes to

mysite.com/contact.php

 

Then how would I make it so folders like /images/ or /js/ or /inc/ etc aren't confused as .php files?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

[cags]

You listed what your .htaccess file does, but not what it looks like... to work with the trailing slash you would try something along the lines of

 

^mysite.com/([^/])/?$ /mysite/$1.php

 

With regards to not forwarding when the file actually exists you would use a RewriteRule such as...

 

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d  
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f  

[Mutley]

My .htaccess is this at the moment:

 

RewriteEngine On

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

 

But it doesn't work if there's a trailing slash, it just brings up a Internal Server Error 500.

 

I don't quite understand your line?

[cags]

RewriteRule ^(.+)/?$ /$1.php

[Mutley]

Nope. 

 

mysite.com/contact.php  Works, as it should.

mysite.com/contact  Works

mysite.com/contact/  Forbidden 500

 

Thanks for helping so far!

[cags]

Try...

 

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /$1.php

[Mutley]

Wahey, that works! Only problem is with a trailing slash, /contact/ it gets confused with where the images/css files are - probably because it thinks its a folder.

 

Anyway around this?

 

Thanks alot!

[cags]

It sounds like you need to change your relative paths. But I'm not really sure, because I'm not certain what your talking about.

[mga_ka_php]

Wahey, that works! Only problem is with a trailing slash, /contact/ it gets confused with where the images/css files are - probably because it thinks its a folder.

 

Anyway around this?

 

Thanks alot!

 

got the same problem which i'm looking for a solution.

[mga_ka_php]

the problem if there is a trailing slash, the images and css doesn't load.

[isedeasy]

try using absolute paths

[mga_ka_php]

fixed my problem by adding <base href="http://www.mydomain.com" />  to html

[Mutley]

fixed my problem by adding <base href="http://www.mydomain.com" />  to html

 

Thanks regiemon! That's come in handy.

 

 

I'm having issues with using this .htaccess in subdirectories however, it trys to use the root domain, rather than the subdirectory, for example:

 

mysite.co.uk/test/site/about

 

Trys to goto

 

mysite.co.uk/about

 

I did this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^mysite.co.uk/test/site/([^/]+)/?$ /$1.php

 

Which goes to the correct URL but does a "Not found" error unless I include the *.php extension.

 

Any ideas? Thanks alot and happy holidays!

 

 

 

[mga_ka_php]

any advice about Mutley problem. i wanna know it also.