Mod rewrite to remove subdirectory and file extension without breaking DirectoryIndex

Question

I have all site pages in a subdirectory like this...

http://www.example.com/pages/myfile.php

I want the URL to look like this...

http://www.example.com/myfile

Where both the subdirectory called pages and the .php file extension are removed from the URL.

My latest (partial) attempt...

Options All -Indexes +FollowSymLinks DirectoryIndex index.php RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages%{REQUEST_URI}\.php -f [OR] RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages%{REQUEST_URI} -d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pages/$1.php [NC,L]

However, this totally breaks DirectoryIndex. When I go to http://www.example.com/ or http://www.example.com/foo/, I get a 404 error instead of defaulting to index.php as defined by DirectoryIndex.

Apparently, it treats everything as a file name instead of recognizing the lack of a file name (directory) and attempting to use index.php.

I tried incorporating this solution into mine, it fixed the DirectoryIndex issue, but it broke everything else.

Is there a solution? Please include a detailed explanation within your answer so I can learn where/how I was going wrong.

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-21 19:43:08Z

Try this in root .htaccess:

Options All -Indexes +FollowSymLinks DirectoryIndex index.php RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / # add a trailing slash if pages/<uri> is a directory RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1 -d RewriteRule ^(.*?[^/])$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=302] RewriteRule ^/?$ pages/index.php [L] # skip all files and directories from rewrite rules below RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f RewriteRule ^ - [L] # if corresponding .php file exists in pages/ directory RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1\.php -f RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ pages/$1.php [L] # route all requests to pages/ RewriteRule ^((?!pages/).*)$ pages/$1 [L,NC]

Specifically for that case I have that # add a trailing slash ... rule and I have tested this case as well. You should test in Chrome dev tool or test using curl. It will redirect example.com/foo to example.com/foo/ not example.com/pages/foo/.
You are correct. My browser cache was causing that last issue.

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