Apache - No Trailing Slash

[X96 Web Design]

I have a question about URL's. How do you get the URL so that it doesn't have an extension, or a trailing slash?

I don't want this:
/about.php
nor this:
/about/

Like this:
/about

Here's a (completely random) URL that has no tailing slash after "about":
http://www.alextoys.com/about

Thanks,
X96

[thetestingsite]

Have a look at this and see if it works for you:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3680798.htm

Also, a quick google search for htaccess extensionless urls is here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=htaccess+extensionless+urls

Hope this helps.

[X96 Web Design]

I tried the mod_rewrite, but it doesn't seem to work... I created a PHP document under the root dir, then went to the same filename without .php, and it just loaded the homepage...

here's what I dumped into .htaccess::


Options +FollowSymlinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>


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[thetestingsite]

Perhaps your server is not configured with mod_rewrite, talk with your host to make sure. I tested the above code on a Hostgator account and it worked fine.

[X96 Web Design]

My host has it enabled... Wordpress seems to get it to work... I'll try fiddling with what it has set up...

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[X96 Web Design]

Never mind - I got it (a while ago I might add). I just remembered about this thread....

Here's what I got:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[^./]+)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) /$1.php [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^.]+\.)+php\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ $1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

You can see it in action on my site (http://x96webdesign.uuuq.com/) too. :)

Cheers,
X96

[X96 Web Design]

For ease-of-editing, I've highlighted the parts in which you need to edit if you want to change the file extension being hidden from .php (if you're using .html files, for example).

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[^./]+)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) /$1.php [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^.]+\.)+php\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ $1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

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