Remove “.php” extension from URL

In order to have nice URLs you could use various techniques. But in case you have a really simple website with pages written in PHP, and URLs pointing to those PHP files like www.example.com/my-page.php, you could set nice URLs using .htaccess only. Using following snippet will let you have URLs like www.example.com/my-page, and still open your file.

Just use following snippet in order to remove “.php” extension from URL.

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ $1.php