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I've got a site where all the pages are php scripts, so the URLs end .php.
I've added the following to a .htaccess file, and I can now access the .php files without the .php extension:
RewriteEngine On # Turn on rewriting
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f # If the requested file with .php on the end exists
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php # serve the PHP file
So far so good. But now I want to add a Redirect on all the .php files so that any old links outside of my control get redirected to the new version of the URL.
I've tried this:
RewriteEngine On # Turn on rewriting
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .*\.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ http://example.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f # If the requested file with .php on the end exists
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L] # serve the PHP file
but that seems to send a redirect even for URLs that don't end in .php, so I get stuck in an infinite loop. Any other combination I try seems to match no requests (and leave me at page.php) or all requests (and get me stuck in a loop).
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The mod_rewrite module uses a rule-based rewriting engine, based on a PCRE regular-expression parser, to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. By default, mod_rewrite maps a URL to a filesystem path. However, it can also be used to redirect one URL to another URL, or to invoke an internal proxy fetch.
mod_rewrite works through the rules one at a time, processing any rules that match the requested URL. If a rule rewrites the requested URL to a new URL, that new URL is then used from that point onward in the . htaccess file, and might be matched by another RewriteRule further down the file.
htaccess rewrite rules can be used to direct requests for one subdirectory to a different location, such as an alternative subdirectory or even the domain root. In this example, requests to http://mydomain.com/folder1/ will be automatically redirected to http://mydomain.com/folder2/.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^\w+\ /(.*)\.php(\?.*)?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule .* $0.php
Only %{THE_REQUEST} is not rewritten in the internal redirection that happens in the second rule (%{REQUEST_URI}, on the other hand, is).
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