How to hide HTML PHP extension from URL Using .htaccess

Are you working with HTML or PHP and want to hide HTML PHP extension from URL, This article is perfect for you. It makes your website more SEO friendly. I’ll show you how to do that easily, by editing the .htaccess file.

How to Hide HTML PHP extension

.htaccess file allows you to hide extension.
.htaccess is a configuration file for use on web servers running the Apache Web Server software.

1. Hide PHP Extension

To remove the .php extension from a PHP file for example mywebsite.com/page.php to mywebsite.com/page
you have to copy/paste the following code inside the .htaccess file or if you do not have .htaccess file then create new file copy below code and paste in the file ans save with .htaccess file and upload it on server root directory.

# Turn on the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

2. Hide HTML Extension

To remove .html extension from html file for example mywebsite.com/page.html to mywebsite.com/page
Just replace last line of the code.

# Turn on the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

More: There is one online tool also available to create .htaccess online.


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