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Wednesday, September 18, 2002

No extensions

Yes! No extensions.

I have a mod_rewrite rule to have most things work with no extensions.

RewriteRule ^([^.]+[^/])$ $1/ [R=permanent,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+[^/]) $1.php

With these rules any normal file will look like a directory. So if you go to http://www.keithdevens.com/programming it'll make it look like http://www.keithdevens.com/programming/, and you'll actually be seeing http://www.keithdevens.com/programming.php. It all works seamlessly - it's pretty nice.

Note, if you're actually going to implement this, read this.

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Permalink | 5 Comments | Tags: Programming, This website | id 2785

23:55 (utc-4)
edited: 2002-09-19 11:29 (utc-4)

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Adam Vandenberg wrote:

No extensions rules.

∴ Adam Vandenberg | 19-Sep-2002 12:26am est | #807

Ask Bjoern Hansen (http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/) wrote:

Just watch out for any relative document references....

:-)

- ask

∴ Ask Bjoern Hansen | 19-Sep-2002 4:16am est | http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ | #808

Keith (http://www.keithdevens.com/) wrote:

Sorry, relative document references?

∴ Keith | 19-Sep-2002 11:02am est | http://www.keithdevens.com/ | #809

Keith (http://www.keithdevens.com/) wrote:

Oh, you may be referring to the RewriteBase. I actually have:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

up above what I listed.

∴ Keith | 19-Sep-2002 11:07am est | http://www.keithdevens.com/ | #810

Dean Peters (http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com) wrote:

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/succeed/

∴ Dean Peters | 19-Sep-2002 4:07pm est | http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com | #811

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