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.htaccess replace .php with / for every PHP file – SEO

I’m trying to get the following functionality to work in PHP without a framework. I don’t want to have to worry about setting up a super complicated framework for every PHP application I do.

http://domain.com/sign_up.php
becomes
http://domain.com/sign_up/

http://domain.com/user.php?id=432
becomes
http://domain.com/user/?id=432

Or if there is a way to get that to become http://domain.com/user/432 but i’m not sure how to handle multiple $_GET variables in that scenario so that’s optional.

This works pretty well so far:

RewriteRule ^sign_up/([^/]*)$ /sign_up.php?p=$1 [L]

The only problem is I have to do that for every single php file i’m using which can become a lot.

What is a universal way to do it for all php files?

UPDATES:

This one line is working perfectly:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1.php [NC]

Only issue is it doesn’t auto redirect PHP

For example, I want to 301 auto redirect:

http://domain.com/file.php
to
http://domain.com/file/

And

http://domain.com/file.php?var1=value&var2=value
to
http://domain.com/file/?var1=value&var2=value

If anyone can think of a better way to handle query string values in a more SEO friendly way that would be awesome! But otherwise this is working pretty great so far.

MORE UPDATES:

Now this is working:
http://domain.com/file/ – to –
http://domain.com/file.php

Both of those point to the same page with this htaccess code:
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1.php [NC]

However http://domain.com/file without the trailing / returns a page not found error.

Also I need to know how to auto redirect http://domain.com/file.php to http://domain.com/file/

MOSTLY WORKING HTACCESS

This .htaccess works beautifully:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !.(php|html?|jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1.php [NC]

The only thing it doesn’t do is auto redirect if they go directly to http://domain.com/file.php it does not redirect to http://domain.com/file/ but everything else about it is working.

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Answers


  1. 0

    Try this:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # not a dir
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # not a file
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php -f # but php exists
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)?$ $1.php?p=$2 [L]

    However http://domain.com/file without the trailing / returns a page not found error.

    That’s because your rule does not match unless there’s a / at the end.

    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1.php [NC]
                  ^

    You can make it optional with ? as

    RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [L]

    Note, that / does not need a before it. It works with or without it.

    Also I need to know how to auto redirect http://domain.com/file.php to http://domain.com/file/

    # Rewrite original .php request to new URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST}  /([^.]+).php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/ [R,L]

# Resolve the new URLs to .php files
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [L]

    If you get this working first, we can see what we can do about the query parameters later.

    Your final htaccess could look like

    # Rewrite original .php request to new URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST}  /([^.]+).php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/ [R,L]

# Force a trailing / if not a file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !..{3,4}$
RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2/ [L,R=301]

# Redirect to php if not an existing dir
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1.php [L]
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  2. 0

    You’ll probably want something like this:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# redirect with trailing parameter
RewriteRule ^([w]+).php?p=([w]+)$ $1/$2/  [QSA,R=301]

# redirect bare php files
RewriteRule ^([w]+).php$ $1/  [QSA,R=301]

# make sure it's not a request to an existing file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

# make sure we have a trailing slash
RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ $1/  [QSA,R=301]

# internally point to the right file
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]*)/?$ $1.php?p=$2 [QSA,L]

    The [R=301] appendixes redirect the browser to the new URL with a 301, moved permanently status header. That way the browser will know where to find the right url in the future, without asking the server.

    Also, sometimes an .htaccess checker is useful: http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/ Do note, the tool doesn’t work with %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.

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  3. 0

    If you want domain.com/help to load domain.com/help.php and still load all the jpg/png/css/img etc, use this:

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