Redirects not playing nice

[CameronDuthie]

Hi there,

I’ve just not long finished a site build here.

It’s a php site that uses perch as a cms, after i finished putting the site together i wanted to get rid of the file extensions in the URLs.

Naturally, i used a redirect in my .htaccess file which seemed to work fine and dandy until i tried to view one page, being this one where i get a very helpful note stating that i’m “Forbidden – You do not have permission to access this document.”

I’ve checked my permissions with the server and it appears that i do in fact have full permissions for that page.

Would anyone know why i apparently don’t have permissions for that page or why the re-direct doesn’t appear to be working when it works perfectly fine for every other page?

For example this works fine,

http://miller-business.com/charities

http://miller-business.com/charities.php

But this doesn’t,

http://miller-business.com/coaching

http://miller-business.com/coaching.php

Here’s a peek at my rewrite rule,

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
</IfModule>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks! :)

[Alen]

Try this:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

[CameronDuthie]

Thanks for getting back to me Alen. :)

Unfortunately that didn’t work.

It’s the darndest thing, i’ve even tried creating a new page under ‘coaching-1.php’ (which works like all the other pages) then deleting the old ‘coaching’ page then changing the new file name to ‘coaching’.

It’s almost like the server doesn’t like the word ‘coaching’ or something…

[CameronDuthie]

Thanks for getting back to me Alen. :)

Unfortunately that didn’t work.

It’s the darndest thing, i’ve even tried creating a new page under ‘coaching-1.php’ (which works like all the other pages) then deleting the old ‘coaching’ page then changing the new file name to ‘coaching’.

It’s almost like the server doesn’t like the word ‘coaching’ or something…

[Alen]

Do you have a folder under the same name? I see that it keeps adding forward slash which it should not be happening.

[__]

Do you have a folder under the same name?

my thought as well.

[CameronDuthie]

Guys, thank you so much. That’s exactly what is was…feel so stupid now.

Thanks again! :)

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