Using htaccess to remove .php and allow path

Question

I currently have a .htaccess file that allows people to enter the URL without the php extension, such that http://domain.com/account redirects to account.php

I would like to be able to have it so that if I enter http://domain.com/account/contactinfo (or http://domain.com/account/settings/groups and so on) it still goes to account.php, but I am not sure how to change what I have to achieve this.

Current .htaccess :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9\-_\.]+/)*[A-Za-z0-9\-_\.]+)?$ $1.php

Any help appreciated! Obviously if there exists a folder it should follow that path (e.g. if /folder/page.php exists, then http://domain.com/folder/page/create would go to folder/page.php)

In cases where users go to /account/contactinfo or similar, do you need to pass any information about the additional URI parts as a query string or anything? — Mike Brant
What I meant was, do you need to take pieces of the URI and pass it as a query string like /account/contactinfo would redirect to /account.php?q=contactinfo ? — Mike Brant

Mike Brant Mike Brant · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-31T19:24:14

Try this is you don't need to pass any URI info into query string (i.e. your app will still look at $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9\-_\.]+)(/[A-Za-z0-9\-_\.]*)?$ $1.php&q=$2 [QSA]
# Note the optional '&q=$2' on line above if you want to make removed part of URI available as passed parameter

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^.*$ / [L,QSA]

Note that since I removed the condition to check for a valid php file, I added a second conditional rewrite rule to just redirect to site root if the re-written request does not point to a valid PHP file. You could obviously redirect this to a 404 page or whatever else you might want to redirect to. Or you could remove this altogether and let Apache give it's default 404 response.

Using htaccess to remove .php and allow path

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