PHP: Hide file extension from URL using .htaccess - php

I want to hide file extensions from a URL like
if the current URL is
http://localhost/salsgiver/administrator/menus.php?sect=about
then the new one will be exactly
http://localhost/salsgiver/administrator/menus/sect/about
and so on, similary if the current URL is
http://localhost/salsgiver/administrator/products.php?id=1
then the new one will be exactly
http://localhost/salsgiver/administrator/products/1
Or some thing different, so that the viewer could not guess the exact URL.
I searched Google and found some matter on
http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/02/hide-php-url-rewriting-htaccess.html
and also used, but it does not work and the mod_rewrite module is also enabled in Apache. And when I create the .htaccess file to secure a folder from all using
deny from all
it works fine.

You could do this, but mod_rewrite is much easier to use if you use a single index.php which then chooses which file to open (products.php or menus.php)
For a single index file:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?query=$1 [L]
For multiple files:
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/(.*?)/(.*?)$ $1.php?$2=$3 [L]

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Custom URL to point to php file

How do I point a URL to a file so when I go to the URL it points to that file but doesn't change the URL. For example:
mydomain.com/orders/create should point to /myfiles/orders-create.php
then when I go to mydomain.com/orders/create it will display all the contents of orders-create.php.
Any ideas?
If you want to do it on the server-side you could edit the .htaccess file similar to this question's answer.
The main changes you're looking at are:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.php [NC]
This would let you create files without an extension and it would run force run the PHP interpreter.
Here's a good read for pretty URLs to find out more ways you could do this, and it'll explain more about what they actually are.
If you can change create-order.php, then you can make it so that it does not rely on relative paths. One way to do this is to create a bootstrap.php file that has all of the includes and then your "leaf" PHP files only have to find this bootstrap.php file.
Another option is to set the PHP path. If you change the include path to include the root of the directory, then when including files in create-order.php will look in the root and it will find them. You can set the include path in your PHP files or in the PHP configuration.
If you don't want or can't change create-order.php then one way to do this would be via the webserver. For example, in apache, you can use mod_rewrite to do just that, have a public URL actually invoke a specific local file. The rewrite configuration might look like this (example for just this one file):
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteRule ^orders/create to create-order.php$ create-order.php [L]
or a catch-all rule with this (untested):
RewriteRule ^orders/(.*)$ $1?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Go to file by link

I store data in text file.
And when user enter in address bar something like
my_syte.com/aaa - (without extension)- I need to file_get_contents aaa.txt file
my_syte.com/bbb - I need to file_get_contents bbb.txt file
Please advise the most powerful way of do it. Apache server.
Thanks
On Apache servers you can use mod-rewrite in .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)$ /$1.txt [L]
if your files can contain - or _ or numbers then use:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ /$1.txt [L]
On nginx servers it's more complicated but some of them works with .htaccess. On other servers there may be entirely different approach. It's hard to help you without more informations.
As you said it's Apache, then use examples above. Either edit or create .htaccess file on your webroot (directory which is accessed by domain). First check if it were there (could be hidden) and if it exists then only edit it (add lines at the top).
If it doesn't exist, then create one by yourself.
Can you please give us some insights about your server? Apache nginx?
In Apache, you can achieve that with url rewriting.
Enable mod_rewrite in apache
Put the following line of code in .htaccess on the same location of my_site.com/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/foo$ /foo.txt [PT]
to make it generic
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/*$ /foo.txt [PT]
Maybe I am wrong in sytax based on your specific server configuration. You need to make the best possible regular expression for this case.

htaccess rewrite rule preventing access newly added php files

I have a website with htaccess file. the htaccess has lot of codes. when I create a new php file it redirects to another page. so I checked my htaccess file and remove a one line of code
RewriteRule ^.*\.{1}(htm|html|php)\/? index.php [L,QSA,NC]
after that the file can can able to access diretly. can anyone know the meaning of above htacess and how can it effect for newly added php files.
This rule:
RewriteRule ^.*\.{1}(htm|html|php)\/? index.php [L,QSA,NC]
is silently forwarding every request URI with extension .php OR .htm OR .html to index.php
So even if you add a new .php above regex ^.*\.{1}(htm|html|php)\/? will match and request for the newly created file will still be forwarded to index.php
PS: This rule doesn't make lot sense though a similar looking rule is used in many front controllers like Wordpress, CodeIgnitor, Cake etc frameworks.
Reference: Apache mod_rewrite Introduction

.htaccess remove extension while preserving uri parameters

i was trying to rewrite my urls in a friendly way; i have written all the php code to handle everything.
The only thing that i am unable do is removing the .php extension while preserving the uri parameter.
So, essentially, i'm looking for some .htaccess rules to change from this:
www.example.com/biography.php/john-doe
to this:
www.example.com/biography/john-doe
(john-doe isn't a real file, it's only the GET parameter passed to biography.php)
Thanks everyone.
If the links on your site are already like this
www.example.com/biography/john-doe
and you want to process them on the server like this
www.example.com/biography.php/john-doe
add the following to the .htaccess file in the root directory of your site.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([-a-zA-Z]+)/([-a-zA-Z]+)$ $1.php/$2 [L]
Should do:
RewriteRule ([^\.]).php(.*) $1$2 [QSA,R=301]

How to understand PHP's URL parsing/routing?

I just inherited a website built in PHP. The main page of www.mysite.com has a href to www.mysite.com/index/35.html somewhere in the page. In the site's root directory and its children there is no document 35.html.
The number 35 is actually an id found in a DB which also holds the html contents of the page.
If I load URL: www.mysite.com/index.php?id=35 the same page loads.
How does PHP know how to automatically convert
/index/35.html
to
/index.php?id=35
EDIT
Based on the answers, I have found a .htaccess file containing rewrite instructions that would explain the functionality.
However, IIS doesn't seem to (or is not configured) know how to use this. (probably because this is an Apache feature?)
So this begs the following question: Is there a way to configure IIS to work with this?
it will be done usign URL Rewriting using .htaccess - should be in the webroot.
It may look something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
May have other bits, but what this basically tells apache is to send anything that DOES NOT physically exist to index.php
It doesn't. There is a mod_rewrite rule that rewrites from /index/foo to /index.php?id=foo, either in a .htaccess file somewhere or in the httpd configuration itself.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index/([\d]+)\.html /index.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
This is off the top of my head. Any browsers trying to load an address starting with index/ has any number ending in .html will be internally redirected to index.php?id= whatever the number is.
Edit: Just saw that your working on IIS. This probably won't work for you. Sorry.
I think you will be using .htaccess to redirect all requests to index.php. From there You can pass the query string a routing class, which will parse the url and identify the unique ids.
In this case we can say like, your routing class will parse the request /index/35.html to indexController, indexAction, id=35. now you can pass this id to the model to get corresponding page contents
NB : Here I a am assuming you are using mvc pattern. Anyway it can be treated in your own way, with the concept remaining the same. Hope this make sence.

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