.htaccess rewrite url

[cssmann]

I want .htaccess to rewrite https://www.example.com/index.php to https://www.example.com/index/ in the url bar, how can i do this?

I tried something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /index/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !=f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !=d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1

but it didn’t work, someone who know how to do? :-)

[chrisburton]

@cssmann https://css-tricks.com/snippets/htaccess/remove-file-extention-from-urls/

[cssmann]

Thanks this was a very good help, and i have now found a solution ;-)

[AWKM]

AddType text/x-component .htc
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET (.*).php HTTP
RewriteRule (.*).php$ $1 [R=301]
RewriteRule (.*)/index$ $1/ [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
RewriteRule (.*)/ $1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1.php [L]

[__]

>I want .htaccess to rewrite https://www.example.com/index.php to https://www.example.com/index/ in the url bar, how can i do this?

If that’s _literally_ what you want to do, I would recommend reconsidering. To clarify,

**1**) if I **type** this into my address bar:
`http://example.com/index.php`

…are you saying you want _the address I typed, that I can see in the address bar_ to change into
`http://example.com/index`

?

or, **2**) do you mean that, if I type

`http://example.com/index`

…you want to show me the page at `index.php`, but still let me see the “pretty” url I typed?

The latter is what the snippet @ChrisBurton linked to does. It is also a very reasonable and common practice. *

*the title is a little misleading, however: it does not “remove” anything from your URLs. What’s really happening is you leave the file extension off on purpose, and then that .htaccess snippet puts it back on for you.

The _former_, however, is a foolish endeavor – mod_rewrite does **not** have access to your visitor’s address bar (nor should it). In order to change what appears there, you actually have to instruct the browser to make a second request (using the “pretty” url), and then (because the “pretty” url is not the _correct_ url), you have to rewite it _again_ to make use of it.

This is a huge waste of time. You’re turning a single request into two (three, in some cases in @AWKM’s code), all to fix a problem that didn’t exist until you created it. Also, if you’re not very careful, you’ll get yourself stuck in a rewriting loop and your visitor won’t get any page at all.

[cssmann]

All i want is the address bar to show the http://example.com/index so people can’t see the file type ;-)

[cssmann]

When i type in what AWKM said it shows page error :/

[__]

>All i want is the address bar to show the http://example.com/index so people can’t see the file type ;-)

…then all you need to do is write your links like

link!

and not like

link!

and use the .htaccess snippet @ChrisBurton link to. “`example.com/pretty`” is what the user will see in their address bar when they click on it; “`example.com/pretty.php`” is the page Apache will serve.

*****
>When i type in what AWKM said it shows page error :/

right – as I said, it’s a touchy/inefficient “solution” to a problem that doesn’t exist. This is nothing against @AWKM; it’s just not a good idea in the first place.

(also, it shouldn’t be all on one line like that: it should look like this in your `.htaccess` file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET (.).php HTTP
RewriteRule (.).php$ $1 [R=301]
RewriteRule (.)/index$ $1/ [R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
RewriteRule (.)/ $1 [R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1.php [L]

[cssmann]

THANKS, it works something like perfekt :-O ;-)

[cssmann]

can you tell me the difference between this to codes?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

because this seems to work in the same way, but there isn’t as much coding? :-D

[AWKM]

Not sure what happened to the formatting.

I like the solution I use because it works with a variety of link structures.

If you have /whatever.php it becomes /whatever

If you have /whatever/ it’ll still work if no actual directory is found

Deals nicely with redirects

[cssmann]

yes, i also want it to make the slash after the index, and all the other. But it’s not working for me :/ because if i use what you send me there becomes error, are the something i should change? :D

[Alen]

You can’t add `/` at the end because that’s requesting `localhost/index/index` hence the error.

[__]

>Not sure what happened to the formatting.

indent text four spaces to have it parsed as a code block. e.g.,

    this

becomes

this

read more about [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax)

[Alen]

You can also highlight the code and click the “Code” link above the comment form.

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