I have a test website on my ubuntu computer, the URL is: mysite.test. I have marketing pages: http://mysite.test/hello.php, http://mysite.test/goodbye.php, etc.
I also have wildcard subdomains: http://user1.mysite.test/page1.php, http://user2.mysite.test/page.1php, etc.
I'd like all pages to be accessible without adding the ".php" extension (marketing site, and subdomains). I've modified my .htaccess files, but its not working and I can't figure out why. mod_rewrite is enabled and working (the "Remove www" rule below works).
#/var/www/mysite.test/public_html/.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
#Remove www - this works
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,QSA,NC]
#Not need .php extension - this does not work
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
Removing the first rule ("Remove www") doesn't make it start working.
When I go to http://mysite.test/hello I get a 404 Not Found error. Going to http://mysite.test/hello.php loads just fine.
When I go to http://user1.mysite.test/page1 I get a 404 Not Found error. Going to http://user1.mysite.test/page1.php loads just fine.
My Virtual Hosts file looks like this:
#/etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite.test.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mysite.test
ServerAlias mysite.test
ServerAdmin fake@gmail.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite.test/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
<Directory /var/www/mysite.test>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName wildcard.mysite.test
ServerAlias *.mysite.test
DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite.test/public_html/app
<Directory /var/www/mysite.test/public_html/app>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
What am I missing? Thank you.
I'm not sure I can give you a helpful solution to your issue, but I have a similar piece of code that works:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.|/]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
this sets that if it is not a file, and if it doesn't contain a .
(such as an image reference.jpg
then it has .php
appended to the filename.
This works perfectly for me.