I want www.example.com/about.php to just be www.example.com/about
I created an .htaccess file and placed it in the root of my server. I am using linux shared hosting. PHP version 5.2
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
It seems that this code should work properly, but for some reason it does not. I get a 404 error when I try to navigate to a page without the .php extension.
Here's my markup too:
<nav>
<div class="container">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.php" <?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'index.php')) echo 'class="current-nav"';?>>home</a></li>
<li><a href="about.php">about</a></li>
<li><a href="services">our services</a></li>
<li><a href="portfolio" <?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'portfolio.php')) echo 'class="current-nav"';?>>portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="testimonials" <?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'testimonials.php')) echo 'class="current-nav"';?>>testimonials</a></li>
<!--<li><a href="#">client area</a></li>-->
<li><a href="contact" <?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'contact.php')) echo 'class="current-nav"';?>>Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="order" <?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'order.php')) echo 'class="current-nav"';?>><strong>Free Quote</strong></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav><!--/navigation-->
You can see I tried using the php extension in the link and also tried without. The links with the php extension go to the page, but don't remove the extension.
I did a test to see if module_rewrite was enabled by putting in some garbage and returning a 500 error.