How do i hide the php extension in a url?

Question

I recently wanted to remove the extensions from my website, in order to make the URLs more user and search engine friendly. I stumbled across tutorials on how to remove the .php extension from a PHP page. What about the .html? I wanted to remove those as well! In this tutorial I’ll show you how to do that easily, by editing the .htaccess file.

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What is an .htaccess file
Removing Extensions
Adding a trailing slash at the end
How do I hide PHP extension from URL?
How do I hide a website extension?
Can you hide PHP code?
How do I hide the HTML extension in the address bar?

What is an .htaccess file

An .htaccess file is a simple ASCII file that you create with a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit. The file lets the server know what configuration changes to make on a per-directory basis.

Please note that .htaccess is the full name of the file. It isn’t file.htaccess, it’s simply .htaccess.

.htaccess files affect the directory in which they are placed in and all children (sub-directories). For example if there is one .htaccess file located in your root directory of yoursite.com, it would affect yoursite.com/content/, yoursite.com/content/images/, and so on…

It is important to remember that this can be bypassed. If you don’t want certain .htaccess commands to affect a specific directory, place a new .htaccess file within the directory you don’t want to be affected with the changes, and remove the specific command(s) from the new file.

Features

With an .htaccess file you can:

Redirect the user to different page
Password protect a specific directory
Block users by IP
Preventing hot-linking of your images
Rewrite URLs
Specify your own Error Documents

In this tutorial we’ll be focusing only on rewriting URLs.

Removing Extensions

To remove the .php extension from a PHP file for example yoursite.com/wallpaper.php to yoursite.com/wallpaper you have to add the following code inside the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

If you want to remove the .html extension from a html file for example yoursite.com/wallpaper.html to yoursite.com/wallpaper you simply have to change the last line from the code above, to match the filename:

RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

That’s it! You can now link pages inside the HTML document without needing to add the extension of the page. For example:

<a href="http://whatever.com/wallpaper" title="wallpaper">wallpaper</a>

Adding a trailing slash at the end

I received many requests asking how to add a trailing slash at the end, for example: yoursite.com/page/

Ignore the first snippet and insert the code below. The first four lines deal with the removal of the extension and the following, with the addition of the trailing slash and redirecting.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ $1.php
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /$1/$2.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

Link to the HTML or PHP file the same way as shown above. Don’t forget to change the code if you want it applied to an HTML file instead of PHP.

Some people asked how you can remove the extension from both HTML and PHP files. I don’t have a solution for that. But, you could just change the extension of your HTML file from .html or .htm to .php and add the code for removing the .php extension.

Conclusion

For those who are not so experienced with .htaccess files there is an online tool for creating them. It’s useful for novice users to get started, and easy to use.

Updates

Attention GoDaddy users: In order to remove the extensions you need to enable MultiViews before. The code should look like this:

Options +MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

If you’re worried that search engines might index these pages as duplicate content, add a <canonical> meta tag in the <head> of your HTML file:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://alexcican.com/post/single-post" />

1) Are you sure mod_rewrite module is enabled? Check phpinfo()

2) Your above rule assumes the URL starts with "folder". Is this correct? Did you acutally want to have folder in the URL? This would match a URL like:

/folder/thing -> /folder/thing.php

If you actually want

/thing -> /folder/thing.php

You need to drop the folder from the match expression.

I usually use this to route request to page without php (but yours should work which leads me to think that mod_rewrite may not be enabled):

RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ $1.php  [L,QSA]

3) Assuming you are declaring your rules in an .htaccess file, does your installation allow for setting Options (AllowOverride) overrides in .htaccess files? Some shared hosts do not.

When the server finds an .htaccess file (as specified by AccessFileName) it needs to know which directives declared in that file can override earlier access information.

How do I hide PHP extension from URL?

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How do I hide a website extension?

You can now link any page inside the HTML document without needing to add the extension of the page as no extension will be visible now in the URL of the website. The search engine may index these pages as duplicate content, to overcome this add a <canonical> meta tag in the HTML file.

Can you hide PHP code?

It is impossible to totally hide the PHP source code since it is an interpreted language, but there are a few possible alternatives: Use a code obfuscator to make the source code difficult to read. Use a code protector or encoder.

How do I hide the HTML extension in the address bar?

By switching the . html to the destination RewriteRule ^(. *)$ $1. html [L] we change the rule to say "If the requested resource name is not a file or directory on disk then try to re-route the request (internally, don't tell the browser) as if it ended in .

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