Laravel, mod_rewrite, and removing .php extension

Question

I've begun the process of rebuilding a site within Laravel 4.

The URLs of this site are currently served with the .php extension. Customers have these pages bookmarked so it's important I redirect them to the same page minus the .php extension.

Example: I would like /contact.php to redirect to /contact.

Laravel ships with this in its htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I'm not well versed in regular expressions or Apache's own syntax. I found this comprehensive answer to serving php files without the .php extension, but Laravel routes everything through index.php, so that solution doesn't seem to work.

How do I universally redirect URLs with .php to the same page without the extension?

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-04 16:38:27Z

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Above the rules that you already have, add this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ /$1 [L,R=301]

to redirect non-existent php pages.

answered Oct 4, 2013 at 16:38

Jon Lin

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