Rewriting URL's to remove .php

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Last Post: May 26, 2010   (RSS)

By theclicklab - May 17, 2010

Hi,

I'm trying to rewrite urls to remove the .php from the file names, E.g.

From this:
/yacht-type.php/motor-2/

To this:
/yacht-type/motor-2/

When I do this, I get this error:
No input file specified.

The .htaccess file contains this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-_]+)/([a-z0-9-_]+)/?$ /$1.php/$2/ [QSA,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-_]+)$ /$1/ [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-_]+)/$ /$1.php [QSA,NC,L]

Any suggestions?

Many thanks
Jan

Re: [aquaman] Rewriting URL's to remove .php

By Jason - May 18, 2010

Hi,

Try using this in your .htaccess file to remove the .php:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

Hope this helps.
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Re: [Jason] Rewriting URL's to remove .php

By theclicklab - May 18, 2010

Hi Jason,

That works for:
/destinations.php >> /destinations

But does not work for:
/destinations.php >> /destinations/

Or:
/yacht-type.php/motor-2/ >> /yacht-type/motor-2/

I'm getting a 500 error and this showing in the error log when I try that:

Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.

BTW... I have 'useSeoUrls' => true' in case thats whats causing the issue?

Thanks
Jan

Re: [aquaman] Rewriting URL's to remove .php

By Jason - May 19, 2010

Hi Jan,

Could you attach your .htaccess file, or email it to jason@interactivetools.com and I can take a closer look.

Thanks
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Re: [Jason] Rewriting URL's to remove .php

By theclicklab - May 19, 2010

Hi Jason,

Here you go, theres nothing else in it apart from:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

Many thanks!
Attachments:

upload_002.htaccess 1K

Re: [aquaman] Rewriting URL's to remove .php

By Jason - May 19, 2010

Hi,

Could you maybe email me a link to some of these pages so I can take a closer look.
jason@interactivetools.com

Thanks.
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Re: [aquaman] Rewriting URL's to remove .php

By Jason - May 19, 2010

Hi,

You can also try putting this code up at the top of your .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} 200
RewriteRule .* - [L]

Let me know if this works for you.
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Re: [Jason] Rewriting URL's to remove .php

By theclicklab - May 19, 2010

Hi Jason, here you go, it looks like a trailing slash issue?

Scenario #1:

Original URL:
http://luxurychartergroup.dreamhosters.com/destinations.php

Without .php (works):
http://luxurychartergroup.dreamhosters.com/destination

Without .php and trailing slash (error):
http://luxurychartergroup.dreamhosters.com/destination/


Scenario #2:

Original URL:
http://luxurychartergroup.dreamhosters.com/yacht-type.php/sailing-1/

Without .php and with seo friendly variable (error):
http://luxurychartergroup.dreamhosters.com/yacht-type/sailing-1/

NOTE: when using the first variation of the .htaccess file above I did not get a server error but the following message:

No input file specified.

Which seems to be CMS related rather than an htaccess issue. So, I assume this will happen again once the .htaccess works correctly again.

I've attached the yacht-type.php page as well.

Many thanks for your persistence and help :)
Attachments:

yacht-type_001.php 6K

Re: [aquaman] Rewriting URL's to remove .php

By Jason - May 19, 2010

Hi,

Just wondering if you saw my last post. Have you tried that code? If it still isn't working, let me know.

Thanks.
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