How to remove php extension only using htaccess

Question

Can anyone solve my problem ? I want to remove .php extention only: My current url is:

www.example.com/department.php/beakers.html?id=213863

And I want like this:

www.example.com/department/beakers.html?id=213863

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This is pretty straight forward and there are many many examples here on SO that you could have looked at to find your solution yourself.

Here is a starting point, you still may have to tweak it for your usage:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?department/(\w+\.html)/?$ /department.php/$1 [END,QSA]

In case you receive an internal server error (http status 500) using the rule above then chances are that you operate a very old version of the apache http server. You will see a definite hint to an unsupported [END] flag in your http servers error log file in that case. You can either try to upgrade or use the older [L] flag, it probably will work the same in this situation, though that depends a bit on your setup.

This rule will work likewise in the http servers host configuration or inside a dynamic configuration file (".htaccess" file). Obviously the rewriting module needs to be loaded inside the http server and enabled in the http host. In case you use a dynamic configuration file you need to take care that it's interpretation is enabled at all in the host configuration and that it is located in the host's DOCUMENT_ROOT folder.

And a general remark: you should always prefer to place such rules in the http servers host configuration instead of using dynamic configuration files (".htaccess"). Those dynamic configuration files add complexity, are often a cause of unexpected behavior, hard to debug and they really slow down the http server. They are only provided as a last option for situations where you do not have access to the real http servers host configuration (read: really cheap service providers) or for applications insisting on writing their own rules (which is an obvious security nightmare).

Answer 2

You can use .htaccess redirection method

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?department/(\w+\.html)/?$ /department.php/$1 [END,QSA]

Answer 3

create .htaccess file in your base folder(example: public_html) then write below code

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?department/(\w+\.html)/?$ /department.php/$1 [END,QSA]