I am updating a php app, which currently does not use url rewriting. The aim is to hide file extensions. The general structure of the website is as follows
root/
index.php
login.php
page1.php
page2.php
page3.php
page4.php
page5.php
page6.php
page7.php
page8.php
subfolder/
index.php
validpage.php
images/
css/
The subfolder folder in the above structure is unique in that it is the only subfolder containing php files.All of the other files are in the root folder.
I have been through these questions http://stackoverflow.com/questions/788188/mod-rewrite-and-php and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1868154/mod-rewrite-or-php-router and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265898/mod-rewrite-php-and-the-htaccess-file
Updated htaccess. thanks to @thomasmalt
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -l
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
# only rewrite if the requested file doesn't exist
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
# add .php to the url
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
Problem now is I get a 500 instead of a 404 error, when I try to access a non existent page like localhost/inex.php. The Apache error log gives me the following errors. (I accessed localhost/index which loaded the contents of index.php , followed by which I loaded localhost/inex which gave me a 500 error.)
[Sat Sep 25 14:44:26 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/index
[Sat Sep 25 14:44:36 2010] [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.
Update: found the answer to my question here. The question is resolved.