How to Remove File Extension (.php, .html) from URL using .htaccess

As per SEO experts there are no effect on SEO if your website urls having .php, .htm or .html extension in there url. But then why we need to remote these extension from urls. As per experts says and my opinion that there are many pros of not having file extensions in url.

Back-end technology is hidden from end users. But it’s still not hard to identify the technology for experts.

The best pros of this is that we can easily change backend technology without affecting seo of pages.

Read: what is .htaccess File ?

First create a .htaccess file in your server document root and add following values in file as per your requirement to remove file extension.

Removing .php Extension from URL

For example you need to convert your url from http://example.com/demo.php to http://example.com/demo. Edit .htaccess file and add following settings.

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

Removing .html Extension from URL

For example you need to convert your url from http://example.com/demo.html to http://example.com/demo. Edit .htaccess file and add following settings.

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