apache: /page/ instead of page.php (mod_rewrite?)

**rotten_yellow** · 08-06-2009, 01:20 PM

Hi,
I want to set up apache in a way, that instead of displaying pages (signup.php, register.php, something_else.php), it displays (/signup/, /register/) etc.. in the address bar. I'm not familiar with mod_rewrite, but as far as I understood, that's what I'll need. Can you please point me in the right direction? Thanks!

**freeloader** · 08-06-2009, 02:02 PM

Code:

# seamlessly rewrite /something/ to /something.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)/ $1.php

Above is untested and crafted without knowledge, but a handy reference. If you request /signup/, it replies with the code of /signup.php etc.

You put that in your .htaccess file.

HTH,

**rotten_yellow** · 08-06-2009, 09:31 PM

Thanks for that! It didn't work out in my case. The problem is, somebody gave me a site, what I need to update. The site's "include" files are in different directory, outside of document root, whenever I click on a link, I get 404, so I think the apache for the person was setup in a different way, because all the links point to '/something/', but the actual files are in '../different_dir/pages/something.php', so I'm not sure how to set this up, any guidance please? Thanks