Hi,

Had a look round the internet for this but cannot really find what I need to know.

My site is made up of PHP pages and to go directly to an inner page the .php needs to be typed onto the end for it to load.

e.g www.domain.com/latestnews.php

I'd like it so that if someone was to type the domain name without the .php, it will load the relevant page.

How do I go about this? I think it can be done via the htaccess file but I'm not sure how!

All advice is much appreciated.

That is named "URL Rewriting", I know a little about it but can't write the full .htaccess code for it, Search on google about URL rewriting you will find your needed result easily and fast.

I found a solution from another forum lol!!


Enter into .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
#
## Internally rewrite extensionless file requests to .php files ##
#
# If the requested URI does not contain a period in the final path-part
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[^./]+)$
# and if it does not exist as a directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-d
# and if it does not exist as a file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-f
# then add .php to get the actual filename
RewriteRule (.*) /$1.php [L]
#
#
## Externally redirect clients directly requesting .oho page URIs to extensionless URIs
#
# If client request header contains php file extension
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^.]+\.)+php\ HTTP
# externally redirect to extensionless URI
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

One wayto do it is to place each page in its own directory, then set the DirectoryIndex to the name of the php. In the root an .htaccess file needs only a

DirectoryIndex index.php

to accomplish this, if every page on the site is in its own directory and called index.php.

Then www.example.com/index.php can be accessed simply as www.example.com/ and www.example.com/mypage/index.php is accessed as www.example.com/mypage/.