How to access my .html or .php file without extension?

This is my Folder structure:

C:\Apache24\htdocs\search-html\test
         search-html
           test
            low.html
            high.html
            new.html

My URL is 127.0.0.1/search-html/test/low.html

But i want to access this URL like 127.0.0.1/search-html/test/low

for running localhost server I use httpd.exe -k start on command prompt

CodePudding user response：

You can add a .htaccess file to the document root to rewrite the url.

# Apache Rewrite Rules
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 Options  FollowSymLinks
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /

# Add trailing slash to url
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/|#(.*))$
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

# Remove .php-extension from url
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
 RewriteRule ^([^\.] )/$ $1.php

 # Remove .html-extension from url
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
 RewriteRule ^([^\.] )/$ $1.html

# End of Apache Rewrite Rules
</IfModule>

CodePudding user response：

Use the following in your .htaccess file. It doesn't really matter where the .htaccess file is located, providing it is inside the document root and somewhere along the file-path being requested.

If you are requesting URLs of the form http://127.0.0.1/search-html/test/low then C:\Apache24\htdocs is your DocumentRoot (looking at your "folder structure"), as defined in the server config.

RewriteEngine On

# Append ".html" extension if the file exists
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}.html -f
RewriteRule !\.\w{2,4}$ %{REQUEST_URI}.html [L]

# Otherwise append ".php" extension if the file exists
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}.php -f
RewriteRule !\.\w{2,4}$ %{REQUEST_URI}.php [L]

The above rules specifically exclude any URL that already includes what looks-like a file extension. So static resources (images, JS and CSS, etc.) will naturally be excluded.

Alternatively, if you are doing nothing else in .htaccess and want extensionless URLs then just enable MultiViews. For example:

Options  MultiViews

However, this does have some caveats:

• Extensionless URLs are essentially enabled on everything, not just .html and .php files. Including images, JS and CSS etc.
• If you later want to do more complex URL rewriting with mod_rewrite then you may need to disable MultiViews and use the mod_rewrite solution instead. MultiViews and mod_rewrite can result in unexpected conflicts.