Hello, I want to remove .php extenstion from my website URL, for that I have written htaccess but it’s not working on Digital Ocean Server.
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Hey @elsadsilva,
Since you are using Apache, you can use something like
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
Make sure you have allowed such changes in your Apache configuration:
<Directory /var/www>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
If you are in another folder, change /var/www to whaterver your folder path is.
The above changes should be in your domain’s Apache config as mentioned. /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourDomain.conf
When you make any changes to an apache2 conf file, you have to restart apache2. Also make sure mod_rewrite is available.
sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart
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