Wordpress: htaccess redirect from subfolder

Question

I have a base .htaccess rules on xampp localhost project

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /www/project.ru/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /www/project.ru/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

If II fill this path - www/project.ru/popular/ I want that redirected me to popular.php in main theme and it allow access Now I receive "404 Page not found"

How make it?

Answer 1

You can try turning on multiviews:

Options +Multiviews

which will kick in mod_negotiation and will attempt to fuzzy match requests to resources. So /foo/ would load /foo.php .