Removing .php extension from URLs using .htaccess? [duplicate]

This should work:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule \/([^\/]+)\/$ $1.php 

It will serve you the file named after the last segment of the url:

http://example.com/shops/shopname1/ -> shopname1.php

http://example.com/shops/ -> shops.php

To rewrite /$var/ into /$var.php and then redirect /$var.php into /$var/ just use these directives in your .htaccess file:

# once per htaccess file Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-_]+)/? /$1.php RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-_]+).php$ /$1/ [R] 

And if you also want to rewrite the specific URL /shops/shopName1/ into the specific URL /shopName1.php and then redirect /shopName1.php into /shops/shopName1/ then you should use this code below instead the code above:

# once per htaccess file Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-_]+)/?$ /$1.php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/shopName1.php$ RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-_]+).php$ /$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^shops/shopName1/?$ /shopName1.php RewriteRule ^shopName1.php$ /shops/shopName1/ [R] 

But remember there's no variable on /shops/shopName1/, give it a try, if you want..

It seems there's a problem about redirection with DirectoryIndex home.php. But I think, this is the code that you want, but in this time, we excluded any redirection:

DirectoryIndex /home.php Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/shopName1/?$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/shopName2/?$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/shopName3/?$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/shopName4/?$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/shopName5/?$ RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)/?$ /$1.php RewriteRule ^shops/shopName1/?$ /shopName1.php RewriteRule ^shops/shopName2/?$ /shopName2.php RewriteRule ^shops/shopName3/?$ /shopName3.php RewriteRule ^shops/shopName4/?$ /shopName4.php RewriteRule ^shops/shopName5/?$ /shopName5.php 

Just use your logic to add more conditions and rules..

I would suggest to simply stop using regular .php files for pages and instead of a framework or a request router, however if you really do want to do this, then in order to get shops.php to shops you need to create a .htaccess file and add the following to it:

RewriteRule (.*) $1.php [L] 

This will rename all of the something.php to something on the URL bar.

An example of a complete .htaccess file would be:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule (.*) $1.php [L] 

RewriteRule ^/(home|shops) /$1.php 

second only manual

RewriteRule ^/shops/shopname1/ /whateveryouneed.php