Rewrite .php to .aff and treat .aff as php

Question

Hello,

On my website I have an affiliates/ folder.

Inside that I have showgames.php

I want to be able to access the file as www.website.com/affiliates/showgames.aff

Inside affiliates folder,I placed this .htaccess

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .aff
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ $1.aff [R=permanent]

For some reasons , it doesnt work .

Answer 1

You misunderstand what rewriting is.

You say you have a /affiliates/showgames.php page that you want to be accessible as /affiliates/showgames.aff. This means the second must be internally rewritten to the first when it's requested, not the other way around.

This also means that you do not need to interpret .aff files as PHP scripts. Just do this in affiliates' .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.aff$ $1.php [QSA]