please help with url rewrite

[lingo5]

Hi,

I want all my php urls like products.php to show up as /products....so I have created a htaccess file with the following rule:

 

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [NC,L]

 

...but I does not work and I still get the url with the php extension....any help very much appreciated.

thanks

[Beeeeney]

I found this on Stackoverflow, apparently it works.

 

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

[lingo5]

thanks beeeeney...but nope...it doesn't work

[Beeeeney]

But the internet said it would..

 

Someone else suggested this:

 

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]

Edited January 9, 2013 by Beeeeney

[lingo5]

nope....

[jazzman1]

Be sure that your htaccess file is hidden.

[lingo5]

hi jazzman..how do I do that?

[jazzman1]

It must start with period.

Example:

.htaccess

[lingo5]

ah ok..yes it starts with period..but I can't get the above rules to work....

[jazzman1]

I don't very familiar with .htaccess, so let me check Beeeeney's solution into my local server.

[jazzman1]

Beeeeney's solutions are correct!

 

Where did you stuck?

[lingo5]

Thanks everyone and sorry..my mistake...had a typo somewhere !!!!

THANKS ALL

[jazzman1]

@lingo5, if you have a simple link on your web page, you could use .htaccess for that purpose .

 

Examples:

 

<a href="products">Products</a>

 

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

 

If you want to hide a php extension in the url string, I'm not sure that can't be done purely via .htaccess, you should use php to do this, or better JS.

Edited January 9, 2013 by jazzman1

[lingo5]

thanks jazzman...I'm doing some research on how to hide php extension in url string....so far I got the first part working !!!!

[Ninjakreborn]

Hiding extensions can be found here: http://programanddesign.com/web/htaccess/use-htaccess-to-hide-file-extensions/

[devWhiz]

For future reference, as an alternative to editing .htaccess you could have made a folder in the root of your website called "products" and then took products.php and renamed it index.php and put it in the products folder, then include any scripts needed to generate the products page. That would show up as www.yoursite.com/products

 

By editing .htaccess, it can work for all scripts with the .php extension, which would be better in my opinion.

[lingo5]

thanks cluel3ss,

I'm still working on the .htaccess part