.htaccess remove .php and add trailing slash

Question

I'm trying to remove .php from my URLs and add a trailing slash to the end. I've got the .php removal working just fine, but I'm struggling to get the trailing slash working.

Here's what I've got so far:

# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

## hide .php extension snippet

# To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L]

# To internally forward /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [L]

Thanks in advance!

Please elaborate on get the trailing slash working. What URL do you request in your browser? How is it handled? How do you want it to be handled? — Oswald
– Oswald, Commented Feb 7, 2014 at 11:06

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-07 11:02:23Z

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First of all that code and comments look very familiar :)

Use this code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

## hide .php extension snippet

# To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/ [R,L]

# add a trailing slash    
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule . %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]

# To internally forward /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [L]

answered Feb 7, 2014 at 11:02

anubhava

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Charles Over a year ago

Anubhava I don't suppose you know how I could make the .php to non .php redirect work as a 301 do you? Currently it's a 302 which isn't ideal for SEO if we have any links going to the .php versions of the URLs.

anubhava Over a year ago

Just change first rule to have this flag: [R=301,L] and SEO will be taken care of.

user1702965 Over a year ago

This works great. I'm running into an issue, however, where my contact form that uses PHP mailer is now seeing GET as the request method instead of POST. Any idea what might be wrong with my config?

anubhava Over a year ago

These rules cannot change POST to GET. Try using R=308 instead of R=301 if you're using POST.

AStopher · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-13 21:26:05Z

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Try this one:

# Run PHP without filename extension
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

# Return 404 if original request is *.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} "^[^ ]* .*?\.php[? ].*$"
RewriteRule .* - [L,R=404]

edited May 13, 2021 at 21:26

AStopher

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answered Apr 19, 2018 at 11:56

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