put links without file extension (.php)

Question

Is it possible to configure Apache in order not to show a file extension?

For example: Say I have domain.com/page.php but want to have domain.com/page as the url.

Any Ideas?

Answer 1

Put this is your .htaccess file

#turn on url rewriting  RewriteEngine on  #remove the need for .php extention  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php 

This allows you to access .php files without the extension, so your links should read

href="/somepage" 

and this will direct to

href="/somepage.php"  

Answer 2

There is also MultiViews as a vhost or .htaccess configuration option. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/content-negotiation.html#multiviews

From that page:

The effect of MultiViews is as follows: if the server receives a request for /some/dir/foo, if /some/dir has MultiViews enabled, and /some/dir/foo does not exist, then the server reads the directory looking for files named foo.*, and effectively fakes up a type map which names all those files, assigning them the same media types and content-encodings it would have if the client had asked for one of them by name. It then chooses the best match to the client's requirements.