mod_rewrite conditions in apache to remove .php not working as expected

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RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/showlisting/(.*)$ showlisting.php/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^/listings/(.*)$ listings.php/$1 [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] ErrorDocument 404 /notfound

In the above, this is what I want to achieve:

I want to forward any URLs such as www.mydomain.com/showlisting/my-listing-data/with-more-slashes/and-some-text to show the content of www.mydomain.com/showlisting*.php*/my-listing-data/with-more-slashes/and-some-text but with URL masking so that the .php does NOT appear on the browser window.
I also want to append with www when the www is not present in the request for SEO purposes, although I'm not sure how important this is these days.

When I visit www.mydomain.com/showlisting/my-listing-data/with-more-slashes/and-some-text however it shows a 404 error, but with the .php added to showlisting, it works fine. Any ideas?

However note that the appending of the www. works fine - that's not the part I'm struggling with, although I included that part of the code anyway for full analysis.

Ensure the slashes are synched. It's either w/o for the rule regex, or with for the substitution. — hakre
– hakre, Commented Apr 10, 2012 at 19:53
Everything is under the public_html folder. All .php files, the .htaccess etc. — jeffkee
– jeffkee, Commented Apr 10, 2012 at 19:57

Dion · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-10 20:01:08Z

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Maybe

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^showlisting/(.*)$ showlisting.php/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^listings/(.*)$ listings.php/$1 [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\. RewriteRule ^$ http://www.mydomain.com/ [R=301,L] ErrorDocument 404 /notfound

edited Apr 10, 2012 at 20:01

answered Apr 10, 2012 at 19:50

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jeffkee Over a year ago

no luck - changed it according to your specs. I should specify that the www. appending works just fine. It's the .php issue that doesn't work at the moment.

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