How to remove .php extension from URL

[samatair]

Hi
I need to remove the .php extension using .htaccess from my URL.
I have tried different .htaccess code by searching in the net but none is fruitful..

I have the least idea about regular expressions. can anyone please help?

my URL is
http:///www.domainname.com/projectna...p/region/state

here region and state are dynamically changing... and i want to remove .php from filename.php

[Dormilich]

what does your .htaccess code currently look like?

[Markus]

Say your .htaccess file is in /projectname/. Try the following:

# Start the engine. Vroooom.
RewriteEngine On
 
# This resolves paths to the current directory. (You may or may not need this).
RewriteBase /projectname/
 
# And the rule.
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)(/[a-zA-Z0-9/]+)?$ /$1\.php$2 [L]
 

The (untested) rewrite basically takes everything after the RewriteBase, up to the first forward slash (if there is one) and stores everything in variables. We then rewrite the url, adding '.php' to the first capture ($1), appending the second capture ($2) to the URL too.

Let me know if this helps.

[n8kindt]

you could also tell php to parse a file with your own custom file extension. for instance in your case you could do

http://www.domainname.com/projectname/file.name

by putting something like this into your .htaccess

#tell php to read all files with ".name" as the file extension
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .name
 

that way it would look like the "dot" between file and name was on purpose and have nothing to do with the language your code is written in

[samatair]

@Markus

Thanks Markus for providing the code. But the snippet didn't work for me. when I removed the .php extension from the filename the page did not come up.
But I think I can try my hand with what you have provided.

Thank you very much!

[Markus]

It was untested (I was a little strained for time).

Anyway, try this one:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)(/.*)?$ /$1\.php$2 [R]

Note: the [R] flag will rewrite the URL. That is, the URL will be visibly changed. Change it to [L] (or omit the flag altogether) if you want to URL to be 'masked'.

[Joe Smith]

markus' first snippet worked for me (without the rewritebase part)

[selva kumar]

For Me Its Not Working Markus

[Shaikh Farooque]

hey try this..... It is tested and working for hiding the .php extension.......

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

my id is ** Edit - Removed **

[upenmishra]

thankyou so much man!!!!!!! Its perfect what i as looking for...