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How to remove extension and force trailing slash with .htaccess?

How do I remove a PHP extension from a URL such that if the page is viewed with a *.PHP extension, it will give a 404 error?

  • I want to edit the URL of a link via Apache mod_rewrite module with .htaccess file. However, I want to give a 404 error if user tries to view the previous non-rewritten URL. So in summery, remove PHP, give 404 error if user tries to view the page as: http://example.com/home.php, it will give a 404 error. However, if user viewed http://example.com/home it wont give an error

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    To remove the .php extension you will need a apache plugin called mod_rewrite this plugin change the route of your website. About the 404 error I don't exactly but i think can be done the same plugin. Check here the implementation http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4908122/removing-the-php-extension-with-mod-rewrite

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Simply use the .htacess to remove the .php extension from the url <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301] </IfModule> As for the 404 error itself, I dont think its possible. Because when you always redirect home.php to home, how can you ever have home.php in the request?

Robin Thomas

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