Use Mod Rewrite to change site URLs [duplicate] - php

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Im pretty new to Apache's mod_rewrite and I'm trying to change how my URLs are displayed in the address bar. For instance I want
www.example.com/index.php
to be
www.example.com/home
and
www.example.com/products.php
to be
www.example.com/products
and so forth. So far I have this in mind but it's not working
RewriteRule ^home$ /index.php [L]

Answer 1

You need to do the following:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/home/$1 [R=301]
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/products/$1 [R=301,L]
You can either put this on httpd.conf in apache or in .htaccess file.
L means - Last - stop processing rules

Answer 2

You can try this. Edit the .htaccess file contents as:
Options +FollowSymLinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>
This will redirect an url like this: example.com/any_path.php to example.com/any_path. To be precise, you are removing the .php extension from any PHP file.
Note:
For specific url, replace ([^\.]+) in the RewriteRule with the text.
Specify a correct path for RewriteBase in case you are using a subdirectory.
mod_rewrite should be turned on for your server system. Google a bit for turning on mod_rewrite in your system.