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I have a static website with files like index.php, blog.php, contact.php etc

How can I get my website addresses to work so that www.site.com/blog takes you to blog.php?

I think htaccess could do this for me, but am a php noob!

The only alternative I currently use is to create individual folders called 'blog, contact etc' which contains another index.php file inside it

thanks

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    Have you at least read some htaccess tutorial? If yes, what did you not understand more precisely? Commented Jun 7, 2011 at 15:31
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    possible duplicate of rewrite url using htaccess file ? Commented Jun 7, 2011 at 15:32
  • I don't understand the vanity around URL's, personally... Using folders is a good practice to organize code. Commented Jun 7, 2011 at 15:33
  • Well, that guys thinks php pages are "static" web pages ... that says enogh. Commented Jun 7, 2011 at 16:44
  • @marvinlabs - took a look, couldn't find what i was looking for. @fosco - I want people to be able to enter www.mydomain.com/support rather than www.mydomain.com/support.php - that was the only reason for this one @Angel O'Sphere the website is static with no backend database, php pages can of course be static if you don't add dynamic content to them! Commented Jul 12, 2011 at 8:22

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Yes, you can use mod_rewrite to rewrite all urls. The following will rewrite all non-existing files and folders to requested filename .php:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]

Visiting /blog and it's not an existing directory will cause this rule to rewrite it as /blog.php.

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@Konerak Well, he did mention .htaccess so i think it's fair to assume he is using Apache.
Just to make it clear: Thats the content of the .htaccess file
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Something like this should do it.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [NC]
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Have a read on mod_rewrite: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

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I have a static website with files like index.php, blog.php, contact.php etc

If you are generating your documents with PHP, then the site is dynamic, not static.

How can I get my website addresses to work so that www.site.com/blog takes you to blog.php?

Assuming you are using Apache, turn on MultiViews

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Just if the extension is php does not make it a dynamic page. You can have a static page named index.php. :)
Yeah but from the context of his question one would assume it is not a static page, but now as I think about your comment, that guy perhaps has indeed pure html in his php and the server configured to return content type text/html, lol ...
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In your .htaccess file on your server add

Options +MultiViews
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