This is what I have so far in my development environment:
php_value error_log log/php.log
php_value display_errors 1
php_value magic_quotes_gpc Off
RewriteEngine On
# remove slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# file.php to /file
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(.+)\.php([#?][^\ ]*)?\ HTTP/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/ajax.php
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ http://localhost/$1 [R=301,L]
# /file to file.php
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ $1.php [L]
I've tried a lot of variants of this rule but I always get a 500 error:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /book.php?url=$1 [L]
And this is in my Apache's error.log:
[Fri Jul 27 19:56:51 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.
What am I missing, why the redirect loop?