How to remove .htm from address bar?

[davelev]

Hi,

I'd like to remove the .htm and .php extensions from my site page addresses in the browser address bar.

This is what I have:

http://www.mysite/folder/page.htm

This is what I want:
http://www.mysite/folder/page

Or:
http://www.mysite/folder/page/

I know it has something to do with access files, just unsure how to modify them...

[atomic2797]

do a search on google for URL rewrite. its pretty commom but also depends on what type of server youre running on.

[davelev]

I just need a simple script or whatever to set this. I believe it has to be done in the htaccess file.

I found all sorts of complex things in Google, but not this simple thing that I'm looking for.

[davelev]

I tried this, entered into my already existing .htaccess file and it is not working

PHP Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.htm [NC,L] 


[davelev]

Finally I managed to solve the problem like this/with this, longer, slightly adjusted code:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /([^/\ ]+/)*[^.\ ]+\.htm\ HTTP/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^.]+)\.htm$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.htm -f
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)$ /$1.htm [L]


For those of you, who'd like to do the same thing, you must place this code into the .htaccess file and, you must also:

-set permissions: 6-4-4 for files
-set permissions: 7-5-5 for folders