How do I make Apache make php = no extension?

Hello,

I've just converted from Windows 2000 Professional as my webserver, to
Debian. I'm using Apache 2 with PHP and a lot of other extensions.

But I've run into a "tiny" problem:

How do I make .php = no extension?

Let me put up a scenario:
I've uploaded the file test-file.php to /.
When I go to http://web-server/test-file.php it should be displayed
(obviously), but I ALSO want it to be displayed when I go to
http://web-server/test-file (without the extension!)

You can say that http://web-server/test-file.php =
http://web-server/test-file

.... but how?


I have seen this on my windows-testserver, when using the pre-compiled
pre-configured xampp package from www.apachefriends.org, so I know
it's possible...

I've coded a lot of pages this way (though it's a baad way, but it
looks prettier to me ;), so I'd rather make it work again, hehe.


Thanks a lot in advance!
/Morten Skyt

Morten Skyt <skyt@klasen.dk> wrote:
> (obviously), but I ALSO want it to be displayed when I go to
> http://web-server/test-file (without the extension!)

I think that this is a really bad idea. This way it's impossible to
distinguish between directories and files and Apache will take twice
as much to do his job. Anyway, you could do that using mod_rewrite.

Why do you want such thing?

Davide

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Davide Bianchi <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message news:<bturt9$bhslp$6@ID-18487.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> Morten Skyt <skyt@klasen.dk> wrote:
> > (obviously), but I ALSO want it to be displayed when I go to
> > http://web-server/test-file (without the extension!)
>
> I think that this is a really bad idea. This way it's impossible to
> distinguish between directories and files and Apache will take twice
> as much to do his job. Anyway, you could do that using mod_rewrite.
>
> Why do you want such thing?
>
> Davide

Thank you very much, I'll look into it.

The reason for wanting to do something like this, is simply because it
looks prettier. You know, it's easier for people to remember a url
like server.com/christmas instead of server.com/christmas.php - people
will simply forget. I have thought of just making directories with
index-files redirecting them to the real url, but I think that'd be
even worse coding than my remove-extension-thingie.

Again, thanks for the quick answer!

Morten Skyt <skyt@klasen.dk> wrote:
> You know, it's easier for people to remember a url
> like server.com/christmas instead of server.com/christmas.php

Use index.php instead and add the index.php to the DirectoryIndex
option. So it becomes server.com and nothing more.

Davide

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Davide Bianchi wrote:
> Morten Skyt <skyt@klasen.dk> wrote:
>
>>You know, it's easier for people to remember a url
>>like server.com/christmas instead of server.com/christmas.php
>
>
> Use index.php instead and add the index.php to the DirectoryIndex
> option. So it becomes server.com and nothing more.

Use MultiViews in your Options line. This is a little more
processor-intensive, but frees you from extensions completely, even in the
site code. See my site (sig) as an example.

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