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I want to remove the .php and .html extensions of my website pages in the browser. I found this code online to add in the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php`

However, if a have a php file named "home.php" and at the same time a directory named "home" this doesn't work anymore. I think I might have to add something like 

Options All -Indexes -MultiViews

but I like this it does not work either. So how can I achieve this?

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    So if you call yourdomain.com/home what is supposed to be requested - home.php script or home directory? What exactly you want to achieve? What if you have home.php as directory name or home as script name with no extension? You must think off all scenarios. Commented Mar 10, 2018 at 10:15
  • So calling domain.com/home should display home.php. Then I want to have a folder called home with other php files in it, e.g. about.php, such that I can call about.php via domain.com/home/about. Can I achieve this using the .htaccess file? Commented Mar 10, 2018 at 10:25
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    Remove the !-d rule. Commented Mar 10, 2018 at 11:38
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    That looks like a pretty good beginning of tons of problems... Commented Mar 10, 2018 at 11:39
  • Why not just rename home.php into home/index.php, and be done with it. Commented Mar 10, 2018 at 12:46

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You could be able to give a priority to file when it request comes without / with same name with directory as well as removing both php & html and determine which one to check first like this :

DirectorySlash Off RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+(.*?/)?(?:index)?(.*?)\.(php|html)[\s?/] [NC] RewriteRule ^ /%1%2 [R=302,L,NE] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*) /$1.php [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f RewriteRule ^(.*) /$1.html [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\/$ RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=302]

So , by the code above , extensions will be removed then will check first if there is php file match this , then html and finally if there is a directory .

So , the request for /home only will check first a php that named home if it is exist ok , then directory home but the request /home/about will go directly to about inside home directory.

Clear browser cache then test it , if it is Ok , change 302 to 301 to get permanent redirection

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You can try with this simple code in your .htaccess

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^\.]+?)/?$ $1.php [NC,L]

Update: As @Niet mentioned I missed condition so add this line before rule.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
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This is actually worse than the code in the question, since this won't even check if the file exists before trying to rewrite to it.
Adding RewriteCond as %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f will do the trick.

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