Is it possible to configure Apache in order not to show a file extension?
For example: Say I have domain.com/page.php but want to have domain.com/page as the url.
Any Ideas?
Put this is your .htaccess file
#turn on url rewriting
RewriteEngine on
#remove the need for .php extention
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
This allows you to access .php files without the extension, so your links should read
href="/somepage"
and this will direct to
href="/somepage.php"
There is also MultiViews as a vhost or .htaccess configuration option. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/content-negotiation.html#multiviews
From that page:
The effect of MultiViews is as follows: if the server receives a request for /some/dir/foo, if /some/dir has MultiViews enabled, and /some/dir/foo does not exist, then the server reads the directory looking for files named foo.*, and effectively fakes up a type map which names all those files, assigning them the same media types and content-encodings it would have if the client had asked for one of them by name. It then chooses the best match to the client's requirements.
This is called URL rewriting. I had to use it for the first time recently and i used this tutorial to learn it, hope you'll find it great too :
Put this is your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^page?$ page.php
page
You want a web server feature called URL rewriting - every web server application (apache, IIS, nginx) supports this. As the name suggests, it takes the requested URL and rewrites it into a specific format that you define.
There are many guides available on the www, even if you are using shared hosting solution you can still add/modify the .htaccess file to do this.
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I have a website http://sharenotes.xyz/.
In this website users can save and share quick notes to others users.
There is a unique note id for each note. (id can only contain [0-9A-Za-z_] charachters).
Unique note id is present in the url http://sharenotes.xyz/hithere.
In this case hithere is the unique note id.
In actual the url is like
http://sharenotes.xyz/index.php?id=hithere.
My folder structure looks like -
and index.php file is present in public folder.
What will be the content of the .htaccess file to short the url from http://sharenotes.xyz/index.php?id=hithere to http://sharenotes.xyz/hithere and in which folder should I place that .htaccess file ?
I know php but I am new in htaccess file (stored in public_html folder).
UPDATE
I was forget to tell you something that -
There is folder named as public which servers all user accessible files.
So I have also hide the name public from the url throught .htaccess file.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Options -Indexes
That's why you wouldn't see public in url.
This would be the required rewriting rule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?([0-9a-zA-Z_]+)/?$ /public/index.php?id=$1 [END]
Best is to implement such rules in the actual http server's host configuration. Only if you do not have access to that, then you should use a distributed configuration file, often called ".htaccess". But that comes with a number of disadvantages. If you decide to use one, then place it inside the top folder of your hosts DOCUMENT_ROOT, so here inside the "public_html" folder.
Obviously the rewriting modules needs to be loaded into the apache http server for this. And if you are using a distributed configuration file then you also need to enable the interpretation of such files for that location (read about the AllowOverride directive in the documentation of the http server).
Most likely you will need to add further rewriting rules to sort out requests to other resources.
UPDATE
Considering your comments and the additional information you now added to describe your actual situation this variant probably is close to what you are looking for:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond /public%{REQUEST_URI} -f [OR]
RewriteCond /public%{REQUEST_URI} -d
RewriteRule ^ /public%{REQUEST_URI} [END]
RewriteRule ^/?([0-9a-zA-Z_]+)/?$ /public/index.php?id=$1 [END]
It seems I am stuck. I have found answers, but I can't get them to work.
I am working on this website. I use a switch to determine what content should be visible. I use the variable $page.
The links with this method are not good for SEO so I want them to be /example instead of index.php?page=example.
I have looked at all the different answers to this on StackOverflow, but I can't get any solutions to work. There are no errors coming up and the site will show just fine, but the rewrite doesn't work.
I have tried on both my servers on servage.net and one.com
Any suggestions? :D would be much appreciated!
Try adding this to the .htaccess file in your web document root folder (often public_html or htdocs), then point your browser to example.com/somepage:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/?$ page=$1 [L,R]
Once you are satisfied that the redirect works, you can change the R to R=301 to make it permanent.
This assumes that mod_rewrite is both installed and activated for htaccess files.
If you are not sure, to check if mod_rewrite is installed, look at the list of installed modules in the output of phpinfo();
By default, mod_rewrite is not enabled for htaccess files. If you are managing your own server, open httpd.conf
and make sure that the webroot directory block contains one of these lines: AllowOverride FileInfo or AllowOverride All
I like the way CodeIgniter cleans URLs for sites, however, I have a site that is too involved to start over using the CI framework (at least for now), and I don't need the depth CI provides, I only have one level deep.
Is there an easy way to do this easily using straight PHP?
index.php?id=2454
index.php/2454/
NOTE: I need a straight PHP solution because the server is Windows and .htaccess is not setup to work.
If you use mod_rewrite in apache you can allow your application to dispatch requests as you want.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
Say your server is located # http://coolguy.com and a users accesses http://coolguy.com/mycleanurl/
With the above rewrite rule in your .htaccess or apache configuration you can intercept which url is being accessed via $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] and send it off to the specific code point you want.
The "RewriteCond" directives i have in there are used to ignore this rewrite rule if there exists a file directly at the location the user has specified, this is handy for static assets like CSS and images where you dont want to have to dispatch these requests yourself.
Check out $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] - it returns anything trailing the script filename but preceding the query.
For example, in the URL:
http://www.domain.com/index.php/var1/var2
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] would contain /var1/var2
You could then write a function in your __construct() or init(), etc, to parse the path (e.g. explode("/", $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'])) and use the resulting array as variables.
Are you using Apache? If so, look into files called .htaccess. They rewrite the URL when they're stored in your directory. So if you put an .htaccess file in your web root with
# .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/www/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /www/$1 [L]
then when a person goes to the URL yourdomain.com/page1, it will actually retrieve the resource yourdomain.com/www/page1 on your server, but their browser won't see the www.
So, for very simple URL rewriting you can use this to hide the ?var=val&var2=val2 crap in the URL
Information on the rules is here
If your using PHP on windows and want to do URL Rewriting you have two choices:
Url Rewrite (which allows you to use rewrite rules in the web.config) http://www.iis.net/download/urlrewrite - Open the site in IIS Manager and select "Url Rewriting", then add your rules.
Buy Helicon-APE or similar (which allows you to use a native .htaccess file) http://www.helicontech.com/ape/ - we use this on our shared windows hosting servers with great success
Generally a url that looks like this:
http://www.domain.com/product.php/12/
will open up product.php and serve the /12/ as request parameters, which then my PHP script can process to pull out the right product info. However when I migrated this whole site, after developing it, to a new server, I get a 404 error, because on that server it's not defaulting to the mother directory/file in case of an absence of requested directories.
I vaguely remember learning that this is generally a common apache function but I can't seem to recall how to set it up or how to manipulate it.. if there's an .htaccess method to achieve this that would be great.
What you're referring to is mod_rewrite. The official docs for it are here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html
You would configure it either in your VHost definition (recommended) or in an .htaccess file.
Assuming that you want to map all requests to a resource that Apache cannot serve (such as files that don't exist) to products.php you can use the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /products.php?request=$1 [NC,L]
You can then use $_GET['request'] to get the path requested and take it from there, depending on what you want to do. I'd normally recommend letting mod_rewrite handle parsing the request and passing the proper attributes to your PHP, but if you're not familiar with mod_rewrite it's probably easier to do it in your PHP.
you can use mod rewrite engine to map this to
http://www.domain.com/product.php?arg=12
Mod rewrite details: http://forum.modrewrite.com
Sample:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^files/([^/]+)/(.+) files.php?app=$1&file=$2 [NC]
this rewrite rule will map any request containing files/firstrPart/secondpart to the script files.php
everything between the first and second slash after files will be passed as parameter app and the rest as file
Basicly you define a regex with some subpaterns and state which script should really be called.
You cna refer to the subpatterns with $n where n is the 1 based index of the pattern.
Have fun.
NOTE this is a extreme simplification of mod rewrite. Please do some research before you use it because this might go terribly wrong...
The directive you're looking for is "AcceptPathInfo on". mod_negotiations MultiViews feature would also give you the option of not including the ".php" which is another common one people abuse mod_rewrite to do.
What handles the disabling of the extension? Is it APACHE or the PHP install? How would one go about configuring the web server where the .php extension is not required? Is there an option that would make both www.example.com/page.php and www.example.com/page work as the URL?
It's URL rewriting through Apache:
http://www.addedbytes.com/apache/url-rewriting-for-beginners/
Apache also has a setting called MultiViews that will serve domain.com/index.* as domain.com/index, domain.com/example.* as domain.com/example, etc.
I've occasionally run into issues where MultiViews beats out mod_rewrite rules, so I tend to turn it off.
Check out some articles from A List Apart on this topic: You use Apache (in your case) to setup ReWriteRule's and then you have PHP parse the url to fetch the correct information. (again, in your case. You can do this with many languages and http servers)
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/succeed/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/urls/
brianreavis is correct. Here's an example for your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
I just throw it all at PHP and parse it however I want in there:
.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$ #frontend.php
I use this in my .htaccess
<Files ~ "^[^.]+$">
ForceType application/x-httpd-php5
</Files>
That way I can remove all extensions (.php) from my files, and it will still work.
I use $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] to retrieve the remainder of the path as parameters. E.g. /page/param1/param2 where page is an actual php file.