Re: .htaccess - change index.php to index.abc

Joe Wollard wrote: > If you don't want to change the names of the files themselve from .php to > .abc then you'd need to use something like mod_rewrite for apache's HTTPD. > I'm not entirely certain as to how you'd do this, but I've included what I > normally use to hide index.php in the url. If possible I'd put this in > httpd.conf instead of .htaccess - there are performance concerns that > may be > involved there. Anyway, I hope this gets you started or sparks an idea from > another list member. > > <Directory /var/www/html/> > RewriteEngine on > RewriteBase / > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d off the top of my head, the following rule would translate 'afilenamestub.foo' (where 'foo' can be any extension, and 'afilenamestub' can contain dots) to 'afilenamestub.php': RewriteRule ^(.*)\.[^.]*$ $1.php [L,QSA] combined with the RewriteConds given above (to only rewrite when a file doesn't exist and/or isn't a dir) no warranty is available - I happily lose days trying to get RewriteRules running and tuned :-P chances are it requires tweaking to get working. > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA] > </Directory> ..