Rewrite all queries to not need the .php extension using a mod_rewrite RewriteRule

Question

I'd like all queries like

http://mysite.com/something/otherthing?foo=bar&x=y

to be rewritten as

http://mysite.com/something/otherthing.php?foo=bar&x=y

In other words, just make the .php extension optional, universally.

Answer 1

I would do it this way. Basically, if file doesn't exist, try adding .php to it.

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

Answer 2

If you can change the httpd.conf and what to, you can also put:

ForceType application/x-httpd-php

in the file as it will force all the paths called to be PHP files. I think this also works with query strings.

Answer 3

This works:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.+$
RewriteRule ^/?([^/\.]+)$ /$1.php [L]

The idea is to make sure there's a query string (question mark plus stuff) and if so check if the stuff before the question mark has no extension and if so, append .php.

Answer 4

Something like...

RewriteRule /something/(.+)?(.+) /something/$1.php?$2

would probably work.

Answer 5

Matches only paths with no extension:

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

Edit: In my testing, the query string gets passed on automatically. If it doesn't, you can use this instead:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/+)*[^\.]+)$ $1.php?%1