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at February 12, 2011 04:06 by stephcode
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I, personally, avoid using extensions like .php in my URLs. For example:

http://www.example.com/contact

http://www.example.com/contact.php

Not only does the first URL look cleaner, but if I decided to switch languages, it would be less of an issue.

So how does one implement this? Here is the .htaccess code I found works best:

# If requested URL-path plus ".php" exists as a file
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php -f
# Rewrite to append ".php" to extensionless URL-path
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^.]+)$ /$1.php [L]

Source: http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3609508.htm
answered Oct 21 '10 at 5:11

	
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site
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Append * to extentionless URL path

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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