Requirement for .php in address line?

FewFew · 19-04-2013 4:10pm #1

Was trying to publicise a specific page on a website. Noticed I had to put in the full address, say http://www.mysite.com/mypage.php .

Php bit looks a bit awkward, but /mypage wouldn't work. Fair enough, it's what I assumed.

But then I noticed that when I went for something like http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin it'd work without adding the php.

Using Chrome.

Just wondering if this is down to Chrome filling in the gaps, or is there a way for the developer to influence this in some way?

Kerry_2008 · 19-04-2013 4:14pm

i you change your mypage.php to index.php it will display it without the page name. The browser will automatically look for the index.php or index.html in a directory.

FewFew · 19-04-2013 4:28pm

Kerry_2008 wrote: »

i you change your mypage.php to index.php it will display it without the page name. The browser will automatically look for the index.php or index.html in a directory.

Yeah, but there's already an index.php in existence I'm afraid.

Plus wp-admin isn't the index.php of the wordpress folder, which is what has me wondering.

It's really the wp-admin vs mypage.php comparison that has me wondering. Neither are the index, yet one seems to work without the extension.

Seridisand · 19-04-2013 4:48pm

If your site is running on Apache you can use the mod-rewrite to do something like

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^mypage$ mypage.php [L]

FewFew · 19-04-2013 6:29pm

Seridisand wrote: »
If your site is running on Apache you can use the mod-rewrite to do something like
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^mypage$ mypage.php [L]

Ah great! Suspected it was something like that alright

Thanks

thelikelylad · 24-04-2013 4:01pm

Fewcifur wrote: »

Yeah, but there's already an index.php in existence I'm afraid.

Plus wp-admin isn't the index.php of the wordpress folder, which is what has me wondering.

It's really the wp-admin vs mypage.php comparison that has me wondering. Neither are the index, yet one seems to work without the extension.

wp-admin is a directory within the main wordpress directory.

When you browse to http://mysite.com/wp-admin I assume it's actually loading http://mysite.com/wp-admin/index.php

FewFew · 25-04-2013 4:15am

thelikelylad wrote: »

wp-admin is a directory within the main wordpress directory.

When you browse to http://mysite.com/wp-admin I assume it's actually loading http://mysite.com/wp-admin/index.php

You're actually spot on. Now I'll have to overload on the

smilie. Should have labelled the question as noob.

:o:o

Seridisand · 25-04-2013 8:52am

If it's a wp site, you can use a plugin like http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pretty-link

Requirement for .php in address line?

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