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Redirect index.html and remove file extensions not working

zeeman007

hi,

I've been banging my head against the wall trying to figure this one out. I would like to do the following:

Direct www.homepage.com/index.php to redirect to www.homepage.com ONLY
Remove any .php or any type of extensions from the URLS.

Can someone help me out here?

This is what I'm currently using:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php
RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ http://www.a1aatlantic.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This correctly re-directs the www.homepage.com/index.php to www.homepage.com. But what it also does is redirect any other page without the .php extension to the homepage also. All other pages without the .php extension should redirect back to the original page and not the homepage.

Any suggestions?

MrSnowDrop

That's because the main root is the "index.php" page file.
What happens if you place an index.asp which redirects to a secondary php page?

zeeman007

MrSnowDrop;1319221 wrote:
That's because the main root is the "index.php" page file.
What happens if you place a "blank" index.html (or index.asp) page?
If you need to maintain the php page, you could redirect from the index.asp (possibly renaming the php)...

Thanks for the response. Unfortunayely I'm not very good at this, so excuse the noobness. It currently works fine for the homepage, but every other page without the .php gets re-directed to the homepage. Is there no way to keep everything redirecting to the same page?

MrSnowDrop

Try to rename index.php to "home.php";
then add an "index.asp" page along with a vbscript redirect code to the home.php (see w3schools for the response.redirect vbscript example code).

zeeman007

wow, I think that's beyond my capabilities ((

Cant I do a simple 301 re-direct of the /index.php page to the homepage?

And then implement another re-write to remove all the .php extensions from the pages?

Sup3rkirby

I can't really test the entire .htaccess file right now, but you're looking to add something along the lines of:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

This basically will take a url such as http://www.randomsite.com/about-us and if 'about-us' is not a folder, it will append .php and load the page, but leaving the URL in the browser the same.

More than likely you will want this above your current rewrite statements (I have no idea how it should be positioned in relation to the +FollowSymLinks), as this will not load anything if the page doesn't exist at all (eg. if there is no 'about-us.php' on the server, the rewrite rule does nothing and thus would continue on to your rule, bringing the user to the homepage as a sort of fallback for bad links).

zeeman007

Sup3rkirby;1319235 wrote:
I can't really test the entire .htaccess file right now, but you're looking to add something along the lines of:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L,QSA]
This basically will take a url such as http://www.randomsite.com/about-us and if 'about-us' is not a folder, it will append .php and load the page, but leaving the URL in the browser the same.

More than likely you will want this above your current rewrite statements (I have no idea how it should be positioned in relation to the +FollowSymLinks), as this will not load anything if the page doesn't exist at all (eg. if there is no 'about-us.php' on the server, the rewrite rule does nothing and thus would continue on to your rule, bringing the user to the homepage as a sort of fallback for bad links).

Thanks for that. The homepage works perfectly, but now the other .php pages do not redirect to without the .php URLs. So now all the other pages have both, .php and without .php URLs. Here's what I have:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php
RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Sup3rkirby

It looks like you just need to adjust the order of some things. I don't know if I can tell you exactly why it isn't working for you, but I did just test the snippet I gave you and it is working just fine on my site.

As far as I can tell right now, it just seems that another part of your .htaccess file is interfering with the snippet I gave you. I can't really test your specific case, all I can do is take some guesses and let you try them out. This next snippet of code should do 3 things: 1) accept urls missing '.php' as the extension (if the file exists), 2) redirect 'example.com' to 'www.example.com' (matching http and https), 3) remove 'index.php' from any url (as it simply indicates the base/index file for a given directory).

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^index.php$ / [L]

zeeman007

Thanks a ton for your help. I tried what you gave me and it did not work. I'm not that well versed with this, so I've posted everything from my HTACCESS below. Basically, my goal is to (a) re-direct www.example.com/index.php to www.example.com (b) re-direct all other pages that end with .php to their respective pages such as www.example.com/about.php to www.example.com/about and (d) set the preferred URL canonical to www.

-FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess /.? ~ # /HEADER /README /_vti

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit POST PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.example.com

ErrorDocument 500 http://www.example.com

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.example.com

ErrorDocument 403 http://www.example.com

ErrorDocument 401 http://www.example.com

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php
RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]