htaccess problem

newbie with htaccess problem

[maryjiel]

Good day Webmasters,

im seeking for help with htaccess. i have this url, which i want to solve by removing the .php in the url and have it like a directory. can anyone help me?

Here is what the URL looks like:

http://localhost/test/archive.php

Here is what i want the URL to be:

http://localhost/test/archive

i have heard that .htaccess is the only way to solve it. can any of you guys can help me? thanks in advance.

[g1smd]

This question is asked almost every day here.

On the pages of your site, link to the URL you want users to see and use.

Install a RewriteRule to rewrite requests for the URL example.com/test/archive to the internal filepath /test/archive.php.

Before that, install another RewriteRule to redirect external requests for the URL example.com/test/archive.php to the new URL at example.com/test/archive. This rule will also need a preceding RewriteCond looking at %{THE_REQUEST} to ensure that there is not an infinite rewrite-redirect loop.

There's more than 5000 previous threads with example code in this forum, at least five already so far just this month.

[maryjiel]

do you have any good example that can serve me as a reference. i am not yet familiar using htaccess and i want to see how it works.

[g1smd]

Pick a few threads from this list: [google.com...]

It will not take more than a few random clicks to find a question similar to yours with example code to adapt and try.

You've already got a clue what the code will look like. All you need to do is fill in the right RegEx patterns.

[maryjiel]

ok. before that tell me first if this is right. i got this from 9lessons.info showing the URL:

[twitter.com...]

it says that it uses a pattern,

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\$ $1.php

But when i tried this. it won't work...

if this is wrong please tell me.. i'll try to search on your searches that i might help me.

thanks.

[g1smd]

That code will create an infinite rewrite loop. I provided a link to posts with the correct code, don't know why you had to look at some other site.

The pattern for the rewrite should be

^([^/.]+)$

if the files are always in the root, and

^(([^/]+/)*[^/.]+)$

if the files are in either the root or in deeper folders.

You will also need to add the redirect code that I mentioned above, otherwise you will have a duplicate content issue too.