How to remove .php, .html extensions with .htaccess

How to remove .php, .html extensions with .htaccess

Many times you will want to have user-friendly URLs on your site. Instead of https://www.example.com/index.html you will want to have https://www.example.com/index . The second URL looks much better. Also, from the SEO point of view is better to don’t use file extensions.

 The steps to remove file extensions are:

Create .htaccess if not exit 

#remove php file extension-e.g. https://example.com/file.php will become https://example.com/file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [NC,L]
Now the Apache web server will remove .php extension from URLs.

To remove .html extension use:

#remove html file extension-e.g. https://example.com/file.html will become https://example.com/file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [NC,L]

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