How do I remove index.html index.php with htaccess

Question

I have these urls in my blog

http://myblog.com/news/post1/index.php
http://myblog.com/updates/post3/index.html
http://myblog.com/index.html
http://myblog.com/blog/post4/index.php

How do I setup .htaccess so that all the urls will end with "/"

http://myblog.com/news/post1/
http://myblog.com/updates/post3/
http://myblog.com/
http://myblog.com/blog/post4/

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

To remove the .php extension from a PHP file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L] 

If you want to remove the .html extension from a html file:

RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L] 

Or see this post:

• How to remove .php, .html, .htm extensions with .htaccess