help with htaccess

[Riparian]

I have seen this code many times and tried to instigate it many times but it simply does nothing on my server.

 

It is a unix server running apache

 

The code must be ok as I do not get errors.

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

 

does anyone have any ideas ?

 

I also have another instance of - RewriteEngine on - is it acceptable to have 2 seperate ones or should they be combined ?

 

Cheers and thanks

[cags]

You don't need two instances of RewriteEngine on in the same file, so scrap one. You say it doesn't work, how are you testing it? What URL are you entering?

[Riparian]

Thanks for the reply

 

this is the re-write part of the htaccess :

# re-write http://ausspecs.com.au to http://.www.ausspecs.com.au

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ausspecs\.com.au [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.ausspecs\.com.au [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.ausspecs\.com.au/$1 [R=301]

# HIDE THE PHP EXTENSION

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

 

an example of what I am typing is http://www.ausspecs.com.au/great_specs.php but even clicking on any of the links from the index page does not achieve the result.

 

Cheers

[cags]

You appear to be under the common (bane of my existence) misconception about how mod_rewrite works and what it does. You're comment is misleading because it says 'hide the PHP extension', this is not what the code does infact it's the opposite. The code ADDs the php extension to requests that don't have it. The point of the code is to take a request for http://www.ausspecs.au/great_specs and rewrite it to http://www.ausspecs.au/great_specs.php. Thus to test that rule you have to request http://www.ausspecs.au/great_specs.

[Riparian]

Thank you Cags...

I  apologize for wasting your time. From all of the instances I have seen the code mentioned this is by no means what I expected.

I certainly appreciate you taking the time to enlighten me .

 

Cheers

[cags]

No worries, it seems everyone that first comes here is attempting it back to front.