htaccess rewrite causes 500 error instead of 404

Question

I\'ve recently added this little bit of code to my .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
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Answer 1

First off, here is some reference to better understand the mod_rewrite module:

mod_rewrite Documentation

mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet

The problem you are seeing is that it is checking for both conditions, the default is [AND], when you only want to check for one, try this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]