mod_rewrite

This is the only set of mod_rewrite rules I ever use:

That makes any .php file automatically extensionless (without having to do any multiviews or content negotiation or whatever), and dispatches all requests that don't result in an actual file to a "front controller" named dispatcher.php.

In conjunction, I often use:

In order to make dispatcher.php work automatically at the root.

Lastly, in Apache 2, you can turn off mod_dir's "slashification" so that if you have public_html/foo.php and public_html/foo/bar.php, it won't think when you type in /foo as a URI that you want the directory public_html/foo/, but rather public_html/foo.php:

I personally don't like having slashes at the end of any url (besides the root), so I have code in my dispatcher that redirects you to the unslashified URL if a URL with a trailing slash is visited (try it).

I also make sure Multiviews and directory indexes are off with:

Page last edited: December 13, 2005 (utc)