Forcing the rewriting of URLs by hiding .php AND .htm(l) extensions and redirecting to extensionless URLs

Question

here is my configuration:

• http://domain.com (obviously fictitious name...) hosted on a server running Apache with mod_rewrite enabled
• folder named \"foo\"

Answer 1

I would like thank Everybody for this post as it really helped me a lot and I used something like the one below and works for me ...

Options +FollowSymLinks  -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_END}  =1
RewriteRule ^ - [L,NS]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)\.(php|html?)$        $1   [R=301,NC,NS]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.html   [L,E=END:1,NS]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.htm -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.htm    [L,E=END:1,NS]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.php    [L,E=END:1,NS]

This version works for me.

Thank you.

Cheers!