mod_rewrite rewrites to directory twice? - apache

Question

My index page and links like /page work fine, however my rewrite rule to remove the php from the /page.php seems to be writing the url incorrectly.
Example: http://www.example.com/folder/page.php will redirect to http://www.example.com/folder/folder/page which does not exist
# Remove .php extention
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/(.+?)\.php(?:\s|\?) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R=301]
# Rewrite to PHP file extension (if existing) without changing url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L]

Answer 1

Your problem is that you put the above code in .htaccess file in this directory http://www.example.com/folder/ so when a page comes without .php it will be handled fine for example if you request http://www.example.com/folder/page it will give you this result http://www.example.com/folder/page , without .php because it will be handled by the second section of your given code
# Rewrite to PHP file extension (if existing) without changing url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L]
it means when file comes without .php will result the same file , good.
but the problem when you write the same request along with .php so the request will be http://www.example.com/folder/page.php and this according to section one of your code
# Remove .php extention
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/(.+?)\.php(?:\s|\?) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R=301]
will immediately remove the extension .php correctly but the problem is in line of code:
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R=301]
The path in a RewriteRule target is incorrect so you see it twice and you should add
RewriteBase /
line above
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R=301]
or just replace it with :
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=301]
and it will work fine . `

Answer 2

You can use these rules:
# remove .php extension
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\s(.+?)\.php[\s?/] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R=301,L]
# Rewrite to PHP file extension (if existing) without changing url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L]
Make sure to clear your browser cache before testing this.