How can I simply remove the .php extension using .htaccess only for a specific file?

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I have seen quite a few answers on how to redirect many URLs so that any .php extensions are removed, but this has been causing some troubles for me with conflicts.

RewriteRule ^quote/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ index.php?id=$1 RewriteRule ^quote/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ index.php?id=$1

I already am redirecting /quotes/1 /quotes/2 etc to /index.php?id=1 and /index.php?id=2 etc. But what I really want to do is simply match /random/ and have it point to /random.php and none of the existing answers seem to be that specific.

Thanks.

So you handle all of your business logic in index.php like if isset($_GET['id']){...}? Well, what you really should focus on now is to any popular php framework. This is a very basic thing called Routing and Controllers — Yang
– Yang, Commented Oct 11, 2014 at 1:08

Rizier123 · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-11 01:13:00Z

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To remove the .php extension with .htaccess use this:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

edited Oct 11, 2014 at 1:13

answered Oct 11, 2014 at 0:38

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phocks Over a year ago

Thanks, this seems to work well for /random however is there any way to get it working for /random/ with the trailing slash as well?

Cheery Over a year ago

@Rizier123 don't you want to capture anything for $1 to work? And it is a good idea to add check for the directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

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