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How do I remove file extensions from my URl

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Dec 08.2013

Hi everyone,

So I’ve been wondering how to hide extension from my URl. Say I have [url]www.mysite.com/about/about-us.html[/url] or [url]www.mysite.com/contact.php[/url] and I want it to show as [url]www.mysite.com/about/about-us[/url] or [url]www.mysite.com/contact[/url] how do i do that?

needless to say I’ve tried out severally php codes on several forums and none of them really works. So am wondering if there’s anybody that can show or offer me a really good working code.

Thanks in advance

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@Kevin2Dec 08.2013 — For small sites, 5-10 pages, the easiest thing to do is give each file its own folder and name it index.yyy. For example, www.mysite/about/about-us/index.html. Now your link code can look like <a href="/about/about-us">about us</a>. Apache will serve index.html (or .php, or .htm) by default, but will also serve it with a trailing slash on the URI that shows in the browser. So what the user will see will be www.mysite/about/about-us/ in the address bar.

Somewhat obviously, once you get beyond just a few files this becomes impractical.

There may be a .htaccess solution, but I'm a pretty poor regex coder. You might look it up though.
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@stiniauthorDec 09.2013 — Ok. Was able to get a working code. Thanks Kevin2

Here's the simple code I used, just in case someone else wanna know:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

If you want to remove the .html extension from a html file then you simply have to alter the last line from the code above to match the filename:

RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
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