How to remove html and php extensions from URL

Question

Hello I'm trying to hide html and php extension from my site URLs and here's my .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/install -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(install) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) /install/ [L,redirect=302]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+)\!$
RewriteRule ^(.*) stats.php?url=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+)\~s$
RewriteRule ^(.*) stats.php?url=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+)\~q$
RewriteRule ^(.*) generate_qr.php?url=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+)\~p$
RewriteRule ^(.*) preview_url.php?url=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.htm$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.js$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.css$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.jpg$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.png$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.gif$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.swf$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.xml$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.ico$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)\.txt$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^index\.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^index\.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*) url_redirector.php?url=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

Any ideas how can i do that? I've tried a lot of answers that I found but it's not working out for me.

Answer 1

You can refactor your rules to reduce lot of redundancy and have 2 additional rules for hiding .php and .html extensions:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/install -d
RewriteRule !^install/ /install/ [L,NC,R=302]

RewriteRule ^(.+(?:!|\~s))$ stats.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^(.+\~[pq])$ preview_url.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]    

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.html [L]

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

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(php|js|css|jpe?g|png|gif|swf|ico|xml|txt|html?)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.(php|html)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* url_redirector.php?url=$0 [L,QSA]

Answer 2

Removing Extensions

To remove the .php extension from a PHP file you have to add the following code inside the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

If you want to remove the .html extension from a html file

RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

To remove .html

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

Updated

  RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]