htaccess rewrite rule without access to direct file

Question

I have this in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on

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

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?route=$1 [L,QSA]

This works fine. eg when entering localhost/file it acts as if it was localhost/index.php?route=file

My problem however is that the server is set to serve files without the need to type .php as file extension. So when I access localhost/login , instead of doing localhost/index.php?route=login , it serves me the file login.php directly. How can I avoid that?

Answer 1

Simply disable MultiViews option.

Replace your current code by this one

Options -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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