This one is going to be peachy! and not just because of the background!
.htaccess
Wow! When I get my ass in gear and get this going this is going to be one hell of a page!
From Caching code to deny codes. This will be your 1 stop Shop...
Except... Its free..
Removing Extensions
To remove the .php extension from a PHP file for example yoursite.com/wallpaper.php to yoursite.com/wallpaper you have to add the following code inside the .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
If you want to remove the .html extension from a html file for example yoursite.com/wallpaper.html to yoursite.com/wallpaper you simply have to change the last line from the code above, to match the filename
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
That’s it! You can now link pages inside the HTML document without needing to add the extension of the page.
Adding a trailing slash at the end
Ignore the first snippet and insert the code below. The first four lines deal with the removal of the extension and the following, with the addition of the trailing slash and redirecting.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ $1.php
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /$1/$2.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
Link to the HTML or PHP file the same way as shown above. Don’t forget to change the code if you want it applied to an HTML file instead of PHP.
Some people asked how you can remove the extension from both HTML and PHP files.
Well, I don’t have a solution for that. But, you could just change the extension of your HTML file from .html or .htm to .php and add the code for removing the .php extension.
If you’re worried that search engines might index these pages as duplicate content, add a <canonical> meta tag in the <head> of your HTML file
<link rel="canonical" href="https://alexcican.com/post/single-post" />
IF for some unknown aweful reason you may be hosting your site under the care of GoDaddy - you poor soul - you will need to do some extra work to get this working. Here's that smal bit of extra work you'll need to do. It involves MultiViews. If you are this unfortunate, Your code should look like this
Options +MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# force https:// for all except some selected URLs
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/PHPFILE.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# force http:// for selected URLs
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /PHPFILE.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
In this above you can redircet entire folders as well:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# force https:// for all except some selected URLs
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/FOLDER/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# force http:// for selected URLs
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /FOLDER/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
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