After removing .php and adding / file not loading (object not found)-CodePudding

I was trying to remove the .php extension and add a / as normal websites have. Example http://example.com/category/.

I use .htaccess to remove .php. Here is the code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# hide .php extension snippet
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]

This code does its task. It removes .php and adds / but the PHP page is now not loading.

This is a screenshot (file name test.php):

How to solve this?

CodePudding user response：

It is because you're missing an internal rule to add .php silently to such redirect URIs.

You can add this rule in the end for that habndling:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# hide .php extension snippet
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/ (. ?)\.php[\s?] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/ [R=301,NE,L]

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

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(. ?)/$ $1.php [L]

CodePudding user response：

After a few research that is actually working in my case is given below.

It removes the .php extension and adds / at the end of the URL.

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]

Output:

Reference: https://alexcican.com/post/how-to-remove-php-html-htm-extensions-with-htaccess/