.htaccess url-rewriting help

Question

I'm a bit confused on url writing in .htaccess and have a question about rewriting urls.

My first question is I'm trying to do is have a one .htacces to make the urls go from http://www.website.com/index.php to http://www.website.com/Home/and another .htaccess to go from http://www.website.com/index.php to http://www.website.com/home.html. Here's a sample code I did to lose the ".php":

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .html .htm
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

My second question I'm running into is I have my a tags are set up has <a href="index.php"></a> and it shows the the "index.php" not "/Home/" like I want to. Am I suppose to put "/Home/" into the href in order for it to work?

I only build websites has a hobby so I don't know much about htaccess. Thanks a bunch.

Answer 1

I think you misunderstood how mod_rewrite works and how it is used: mod_rewrite is for rewriting or redirecting requested URIs. So if a URI path like /Home/ or /home.html is requested, mod_rewrite can be used to rewrite these requests internally to /home.php.

But to have mod_rewrite do this, you will actually need to request /Home/ or /home.html respectively and not /home.php. So /Home/ and /home.html have to be already used in the HTML documents instead of /home.php.