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clean url with .htaccess but with only one url – SEO

i’m using .htaccess to create clean urls.
here is a piece of .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/$|.) 
RewriteRule (.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L] 

RewriteRule ^posts/page/([0-9]+)/$ posts.php?page=$1
RewriteRule ^posts posts.php

it works fine but problem is both urls work!
is there a way to only make site.com/posts/ work and return ‘not found’ on site.com/posts.php(or redirect to site.com/posts/)

think i read somewhere two urls for the same page is bad for seo.

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  1. 0

    You can create a rewrite rule that returns 404 HTTP code on every “.php” URL :

    RewriteRule .*.php$ - [R=404]
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  2. 0

    This is working fine for me. Hope it will work fine for you as well.

    RewriteEngine On
Options -Multiviews

#For rewriting request to posts.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/posts/?$
RewriteRule .* /posts.php [L,END]

#For returning 404 on directly accessing /posts.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/posts.php$
RewriteRule .* - [R=404,L]
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  3. 0

    To redirect /posts.php to /posts you can use this

    RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /posts.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /posts [NE,L,R]
#Your other rules

    If you want to redirect the orignal request to 404 , change the RewriteRule line to this

    RewriteRule ^ - [R=404,L]
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