Posted by Schraalhans Keukenmeester on 05/03/07 07:09

On Wed, 02 May 2007 22:15:18 -0500, Jon Slaughter wrote:

> How the heck do I get mod rewrite to add extensions to any file?
>
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1\.php [nc]
>
> To me that should find any group of characters(such as any path) and then
> add the .php to the end? But this doesn't work and gives me a server error.
> If I remove the $ in front of the 1 then it does but ofcourse all my links
> end up as 1.php
>
> I can also do something like
>
> RewriteRule ^3(.*)$ $1\.php [nc]
>
> and all my links will be redirected to 3---.php
>
> What I want is to take
>
> [url] into [url].php
>
> (without query string and or other special chars such as ([^&?]&) or [QSA])
>
>
> I just can't understand why the following does not work ;/
>
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1\.php [nc]
>
> $1 should be whatever is matched by (.*)? (which should be the whole url?)
> In any case I can't see how its an error?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon

http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mod_rewrite will probably
help you get to grips with mod_rewrite, at least it scratches the surface
of what's possible.

Sh.

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