How to hide url extensions? such as .html,.php, etc

Website Building
#1

how to hide url extensions? such as .html,.php, etc.? i want to have cleaner and easy to remember urls. and since this would also increase my google rank.

any ideas? please?

thanks a lot!

#2

Here: http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/02/hide-php-url-rewriting-htaccess.html

#3

thanks and im trying to get it work, i have a question though, where do i upload/put my .htaccess file? i have uploaded it in my public_html folder, is that correct?

#4

to whereever you want to enable .htaccess, public_html or any folder that you want.

#5

thank you for your quick reply, heres the code i tried to put in the .htaccess file
i know theres something wrong because its not working. all i wanted is to hide html extensions, ex. www.mysite/services.html to www.mysite/services

RewriteBase /public_html
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*).htm$ $1.html [nc]

thank you for all your patience

#6

RewriteBase /

#7

this is my code now and it aint workin

RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*).htm$ $1.html [nc]

what possibly could have gone wrong?

whenver i type, www.mysite/services it gives me the index of/ services or it redirects me to http://err.000webhost.com/

#8

please check out this article that might help.

http://support.ongetc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=286&Itemid=25&catid=151

#9

i already got the correct code! finally! thanks to rich who sent me the correct code, too bad his username no longer exist, nevertheless im so happy! and all i can say is WOW, works like a charm! rich! your genius!

for those having the same predicament, here’s the code:

RewriteBase /

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

#10

this is what i do
if you have for example thesection.php in the root directory
create a folder named thesection and put thesection.php inside of it and rename the php file to index.php
now if you visit www.yoursite.com/thesection/ your original php file should then be displayed
note that the ending slash MUST be present
this can be done for most url extensions

#11

right! but i prefer doing it in .httaccess file its easier for me (though it took a long time for me to figure out the code) than renaming and creating new folders one by one.

#12

Thakns! I have been looking for this for a while.
But now it works on the 000webhost server, it doesn’t work locally (so if I open the pages locally after editing or something), the new links that don’t point to blabla.html anymore, just blabla, so I was wondering, can I do something similar so my computer will recognize the links?

(btw I don’t know if this makes any diference but I use a mac)

#13

Splatster gave the technic I was going to suggest.

The other idea is to load your additional pages dynamically or in an iframe, then all your people see is your .com address.

#14

you would have to have the same apache.conf file 000webhost has. and I am more than sure they are not going to tell you thier setup for security reasons.