Removing page extension with .htaccess bugs Facebook Open Graph - php

I researched for removing page extensions (Ex: /page.php to just /page) and I found this article: http://alexcican.com/post/how-to-remove-php-html-htm-extensions-with-htaccess/
So, I inputed this code into my .htaccess file. It really worked, but when I paste/type my index link at Facebook status with no trailing slash at the end, the Open Graph kinda bugs. There's no thumbnail, no right title and description.
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Would the solution be remove the code from .htaccess and create subfolders with index files to have the pages without extension?
That's the code of my .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

You can try this one for just single link:
RewriteRule ^page page.php [L]
If you want just to redirect that one simple file. It's better to use id's to get bigger spectrum.

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Url rewriting and redirrecting not working (quite)

I have a WordPress installation in my main folder, so my site goes like
www.example.com
Besides that I have a subfolder with a separate static site that you can access with
www.example.com/special
So in the special pages I have a page called
www.example.com/special/my-special-page
It's actually a .php file, but I've removed the extensions in the .htaccess file of that special site with this
RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
And this works.
But my client said: I want, when I enter
www.example.com/myawardspage
to go to
www.example.com/special/my-special-page
but to have the above URL (without /special/my-special-page) in it. So in the main .htaccess file (the one that controls the WordPress) I've added
RewriteRule ^myawardspage?$ http://www.example.com/special/my-special-page [NC,L]
So now when you go to
www.example.com/myawardspage
I am redirected to
www.example.com/special/my-special-page
which is great, but I need the URL to look like
www.example.com/myawardspage
So in the .htaccess file of the special page I've added
RewriteRule ^myawardspage/?$ /special/my-special-page [NC]
But the URL remains the same (http://www.example.com/special/my-special-page).
What am I doing wrong here?
Just below RewriteEngine on, place the following lines in your /.htaccess (document root) file:
# Check if the file being requested exists
# in the 'special' directory
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/special/$1.php -f
# If so, then rewrite accordingly:
RewriteRule ^([^.]+) special/$1.php [L]
Using this method means that you don't need that rule in the special/.htaccess file - you can safely remove it.
Ok, so you mean when ever you want to hit www.example.com/myawardspage then you want to get data from www.example.com/special/my-special-page while in your address bar your address remains www.example.com/myawardspage To achieve this apply this rule in your WordPress installation's .htaccess file.
RewriteRule ^myawardspage/?$ www.example.com/special/my-special-page [NC,L] # Handle requests for "www.example.com/special/my-special-page"
It wil get you desired data and your problem will be solved. Let me know if that works for you.

Remove file extension on url

Good day!
Got a lot of questions here but i guess i can't ask it all at once so i'll start with the problem i am facing now.
So, I am new to .htaccess and I don't know how or if it is possible to remove the file extensions on url, like for example I am accessing my home page in this url "www.sniper.com/home.php", so the question is clear. Is it really possible to use .htaccess to remove the file extension so that when you are at homepage the url will look just like "www.sniper.com/home" ?
To remove .php extension
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

Htaccess rewrite rule php link not working Wordpress

I've made some search about .htaccess Rewrite function, but I couldn't find any example with an html reference.
I'm trying to redirect from my example.com/products/category/ link to another page.
Here's the link what I'd like the .htaccess file to redirect:
<a href="example.com/products/category/?category=bathroom">
I'd like to achieve this style:
example.com/products/category/bathroom/
Here's my .htaccess ReWriteRule:
RewriteRule ^products/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ /products/category.php/?category=$1 [L] # Process category
Note that I'm using two different php pages for both. page-category.php and category.php
I've places it after
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
but still it doesn't work.. The only time something happened when I tried some combinations, it threw back an internal server error. Is there a problem with my RegEx or am I not doing the linking right ?
EDIT: I'm using wordpress, I forgot to mention that, sorry.
You need to use Redirect 301
RedirectMatch 301 ^example.com/products/category/?category= /example/home/page-category.php
Or you can use mod_rewrite instead:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^example/products/category/?category= /example/home/page-category.php [L,R=301]
same you can do for another file.
as i understood from your question you need something like this in category directory .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) category.php?category=$1 [QSA]
Now anything that is not a directory or a file inside category directory will be rewriten like /category/bathroom will be rewriten to (without redirection) /category.php?category=bathroom

.htaccess RewriteEngine converting links without changing links

I'm on my begining of learning PHP and very first steps of .htaccess, most of my new web is about main category and few subcategories.
Here are links examples i had before working out .htaccess RewriteEngine:
example.com/index.php?cat=email
example.com/index.php?cat=about&show=some
with help of .htaccess RewriteEngine i've convered them to:
example.com/email/
example.com/about/some/
Here is part of .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/$ index.php?cat=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/$ index.php?cat=$1&show=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ index.php?cat=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&show=$2 [L]
Now problem is that most of content have inside links like: "example.com/index.php?cat=about&show=some" Changing them all is option, but anyway... is there anything else could be done? I heard of some .htaccess option that autoconverts links to format you need without changing them manualy, so all links in PHP pages will be the same, but once user gets page loaded, links will be like (example.com/about/some/) Is there anything like that, or is there any other option to leave original link without changing them all?
Cheers!
Links on your site are created with your PHP scripts, Apache with htaccess can't magically change all this links in a raw.
Now what you can do, is redirect old URL to the new ones using htaccess, with a 301 redirection.
For example, if someone click on example.com/index.php?cat=email, Apache will redirect (= the URL will be changed and there will be another HTTP request) to example.com/email/, and then rewrite this to index.php?cat=email
Add this to your htaccess :
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} index.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} cat=([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)
RewriteRule ^ http://example.com/%1/? [L,R=301]
Anyway I strongly recommend you to change the links directly in your code, because even if the solution I've just explained should works (not tested), it's not really healthy to use redirection when you can avoid them.

PHP Friendly Urls for my script

I have a site which I have converted to use cms made simple. It works perfectly and I have the friendly urls working fine too. My issue is with a little script I wrote myself and how best to integrate it. The script is a gallery script, it reads a directory and outputs a formatted gallery in html. I was planning on making it a user defined tag in cms made simple but I hit a small snag.
The gallery script needs to be able to read in two values from the url groupId and showpage.
If I am using freindly urls then the cms and use the tag I hit a snag as the cms tries to find an actual page at "www.mysite.com/gallery/mygroup/2" and then throws a 404.
basically I need
http://www.mysite.com/gallery/photogroup/2
rewritten to
http://www.mysite.com/gallery.php?groupId=photogroup&showpage=2
UPDATE
Follwoing Yuri's advice I added his rule to the htaccess. But I have hit another snag.
So for instance if we go to
http://www.mysite.com/gallery/photogroup/2
then Yuri's rule should take effect. But that path is also a correct physical directory on my site coincidentally. Is there a way to have the rewrite rule take effect instead of bringing me to a white screen browsing the files in the directory or to the forbidden screen if I have indexes turned off which I do.
Below is my htaccess
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1
RewriteRule ^gallery/(\w+)/(\d+)$ gallery.php?groupId=$1&showpage=$2 [QSA,L]
So, did you try to write in .htaccess something like this?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond ${REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond ${REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^gallery/(\w+)/(\d+)$ gallery.php?groupId=$1&showpage=$2 [QSA,L]
sounds like a "module" to me. Maybe this Make your module use clean URLs

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