How to access .html or .php file without extension on 127.0.0.1/

Use the following in your .htaccess file. It doesn't really matter where the .htaccess file is located, providing it is inside the document root and somewhere along the file-path being requested.

If you are requesting URLs of the form http://127.0.0.1/search-html/test/low then C:\Apache24\htdocs is your DocumentRoot (looking at your "folder structure"), as defined in the server config.

RewriteEngine On # Append ".html" extension if the file exists RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}.html -f RewriteRule !\.\w{2,4}$ %{REQUEST_URI}.html [L] # Otherwise append ".php" extension if the file exists RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}.php -f RewriteRule !\.\w{2,4}$ %{REQUEST_URI}.php [L] 

The above rules specifically exclude any URL that already includes what looks-like a file extension. So static resources (images, JS and CSS, etc.) will naturally be excluded.

Alternatively, if you are doing nothing else in .htaccess and want extensionless URLs then just enable MultiViews. For example:

Options +MultiViews 

However, this does have some caveats:

• Extensionless URLs are essentially enabled on everything, not just .html and .php files. Including images, JS and CSS etc.
• If you later want to do more complex URL rewriting with mod_rewrite then you may need to disable MultiViews and use the mod_rewrite solution instead. MultiViews and mod_rewrite can result in unexpected conflicts.

You can add a .htaccess file to the document root to rewrite the url.

# Apache Rewrite Rules <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / # Remove .php-extension from url RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/$ $1.php # Remove .html-extension from url RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/$ $1.html # End of Apache Rewrite Rules </IfModule> 

And if you want to add a trailing slash at the end you can add this bit.

# Add trailing slash to url RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/|#(.*))$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [R=301,L]