如何使用 htaccess 隐藏 php 文件扩展名？

Question

RewriteRule ^site/index$ site/index.php [NC,L]

this line does hide the extension successfully. Now I do not want the page with the extension to be accessible; if one tries to access that page with the extension, it must show an error. Only the one that has the extension hidden that must be accessible.

Answer 1

it must show an error.

To return a 403 Forbidden when accessing /site/index.php you could do the following before the existing rewrite:

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^site/index\.php$ - [F]

The condition that checks against the REDIRECT_STATUS is necessary in order to prevent the rewritten URL also triggering a 403.

However, it would be more SEO-friendly to redirect/correct such requests instead.

Aside:

this line does hide the extension successfully.

Just wording I guess, but "this line" doesn't "hide" anything. It specifically adds the extension back. (The extension is already hidden in the initial request.)

Answer 2

@MrWhite gave an answer that showed how to throw an error message like you asked, but why would you want to throw an error message instead of just redirecting example.com/page.php to example.com/page ? Here is the .htaccess code for that:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ /$1 [R,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ /$1.php [NC,END]

This makes sure that both /page and /page.php go to the same url ( /page ) and serve the same page/file ( /page.php )