[The Infinity]

I was told a while ago that I could change my .htaccess to know when the URL said something like http://www.mysite.com/home.php that in the address bar it would automatically see it as http://www.mysite.com/home and it would display that in the address bar.

The person that told me this was a little unclear about how to do it. I was wondering if someone could give me a better explaination of how I can go about doing this.

- Thanks

[knight_47]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^home(/)?$ home.php
RewriteRule ^video(/)?$ video.html
RewriteRule ^pictures(/)?$ pictures.htm

Just add the above code to your .htaccess file, I have given 3 examples, all the bold are the parts that need to be edited out.

By the way, the reason (/) is in the RewriteRule is so you can have yoursite.com/pictures OR yoursite.com/picutres/ and they will both work.

Thanks namenotfound...

[The Infinity]

Awesome. Will I need to add this for ever page I make?

Such as if I create a page called turtles.php will I need to go into the htaccess page and make the change:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^home(/)?$ home.php
RewriteRule ^video(/)?$ video.html
RewriteRule ^pictures(/)?$ pictures.htm
RewriteRule ^turtles(/)?$ turtles.php

?

[watchintv]

I am also positive that there is another way to do it with out having to keep adding the name of the page to the htaccess page. I've done it before, but cant remember how you do it. Ill look it up.

[watchintv]

Found it, I think.

Try adding just this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

[namenotfound]

@watchintv that's cool I didn't know about that one


The method I told Knight is good if you want relevant urls, such as if you have a site with articles and you want the urls to be dated. Such as:

site.com/November/27/2006/world-peace-starts

Instead of creating all those directories, you could do something like this:

RewriteRule ^November/27/2006/world-peace-starts(/)?$ worldpeace.php

The actual file would be at site.com/worldpeace.php but you'd see in the address bar site.com/November/27/2006/world-peace-starts

[The Infinity]

Sorry if this is a bit of a dumb question since I'm really new to the .htaccess part. But all I have to do is add:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

to my .htaccess and that should take care of my problem?

[knight_47]

Originally Posted by The Infinity

Sorry if this is a bit of a dumb question since I'm really new to the .htaccess part. But all I have to do is add:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

to my .htaccess and that should take care of my problem?

Yup, it's that easy.

But I have a question, will this work if I have php, html, and htm files? Or do I need to modify the last line??

[The Infinity]

Originally Posted by knight_47

Yup, it's that easy.

But I have a question, will this work if I have php, html, and htm files? Or do I need to modify the last line??

Thats what I was wondering to because on the FTP server the files are called index.php with the .php ending.

Do I need to change anything, because I put it onto the .htaccess below everything else I have in that .htaccess file and it didn't work. I received a 404 error when I tried to take .php off the end in the address bar.

[watchintv]

To be honest with ya, I have no clue how it works. I just had the site I saw it on bookmarked in firefox.

[The Infinity]

Originally Posted by watchintv

To be honest with ya, I have no clue how it works. I just had the site I saw it on bookmarked in firefox.

Great

[watchintv]

lol, im sure somebody knows.

[The Infinity]

Originally Posted by watchintv

lol, im sure somebody knows.

I sure do hope so, I have been having this problem forever

[namenotfound]

Forever? Your first post in this thread was at 12:34 AM today (EST)

[The Infinity]

Originally Posted by namenotfound

Forever? Your first post in this thread was at 12:34 AM today (EST)

Lol, I have had the problem longer than that, I had a post way back and I had, had the problem a few months before that post. I just let it go until my members started to complain.