mod_rewrite for removing .php extension is producing 404 error

Question

I've looked up and tried 3 or 4 answers on SO for this and they are not working for me.

I have dev.mydomain.com/pw/ and I want dev.mydomain.com/pw/builder to redirect to dev.mydomain.com/pw/builder.php etc.

I have tried several solutions including:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) $1.php [L]

from: here and:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]

from: here

as well as:

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

that I have from other projects.

I have also tried manipulating the RewriteBase to various things, like / and /pw/ to no effect.

Anything obvious I'm doing wrong/not doing?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '14 at 09:46

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Place this rule in /pw/.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /pw/

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /(?:index)?(.*?)\.php[\s?] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L,NE]

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

answered Aug 16 '14 at 09:46

anubhava

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What URL do you see in browser when you get 404? – anubhava Aug 16 '14 at 18:26
that's what gets converted. When I click a link to "builder.php" that's how it redirects me. If I type in /pw/builder it says 404. – sharf Aug 16 '14 at 18:50
What happens when you enter `dev.mydomain.com/pw/builder` in your browser? – anubhava Aug 16 '14 at 19:32
Not Found The requested URL /dev/pw/builder was not found on this server. – sharf Aug 16 '14 at 20:04
So `dev.mydomain.com/pw/builder` is 404 and `dev.mydomain.com/pw/builder.php` loads fine? – anubhava Aug 17 '14 at 08:16

mod_rewrite for removing .php extension is producing 404 error

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