Requirement for .php in address line?

FewFew

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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