PHP files without extension

**Daniel Tryba** · Jul 17 '05, 08:23 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

Berislav Lopac <berislav.lopac @dimedia.hr> wrote:[color=blue]
> I know how to set Apache to send files with any extension to PHP before
> sending a response. Is there a way to do so for files with no extension
> whatsoever? I don't want *all* files to be parsed by PHP, but only those
> without extension (and, of course, with some selected extensions).[/color]

Maybe you should take a look at MultiViews. This lets you write URLs
without extension and let Apache guess what file actually should be
used. http://example.com/foo will for example be evaluated to
http://example.com/foo.php if it exists or http://example.com/foo.html
instead...

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Daniel Tryba

**Ian.H** · Jul 17 '05, 08:23 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:03:12 +0200, "Berislav Lopac"
<berislav.lopac @dimedia.hr> wrote:
[color=blue]
>I know how to set Apache to send files with any extension to PHP before
>sending a response. Is there a way to do so for files with no extension
>whatsoever? I don't want *all* files to be parsed by PHP, but only those
>without extension (and, of course, with some selected extensions).
>
>Berislav[/color]

If this is on a Unix box, just dropping the extension and providing you
have '<?php' at the top, the files should be parsed as PHP files.

Unlike windoze, Unix doesn't stupidly rely on the file extension to tell
the OS what the file is.

The other way would be to use mod_rewrite in Apache:

RewriteRule /^(files|you|wis h|to|parse|as|p hp)$ /$1.php [L]

You'd save the files as foo.php etc, but access to '/foo' would then
read the 'foo.php' file without requiring the .php extension.

HTH =)

Regards,

Ian

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**Berislav Lopac** · Jul 17 '05, 08:23 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

Ian.H wrote:[color=blue]
>
> If this is on a Unix box, just dropping the extension and providing
> you have '<?php' at the top, the files should be parsed as PHP files.[/color]

It doesn't work -- as I expected, it displays the PHP code. This is on a
Fedora box with Apache 1.3.29 -- perhaps this works in Apache 2?
[color=blue]
> The other way would be to use mod_rewrite in Apache:
>
>
> RewriteRule /^(files|you|wis h|to|parse|as|p hp)$ /$1.php [L]
>
>
> You'd save the files as foo.php etc, but access to '/foo' would then
> read the 'foo.php' file without requiring the .php extension.
>
>
> HTH =)[/color]

It does help, but is there a way to do it via an AddType statement in the
httpd.conf, which AFAIK itself uses mod_rewrite?

Berislav

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**Berislav Lopac** · Jul 17 '05, 08:23 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

Berislav Lopac wrote:[color=blue]
> the httpd.conf, which AFAIK itself uses mod_rewrite?[/color]

Ooops, it turns out I don't know. It uses mod_mime, not mod_rewrite.

Berislav

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**Ian.H** · Jul 17 '05, 08:23 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:23:52 +0200, "Berislav Lopac"
<berislav.lopac @dimedia.hr> wrote:
[color=blue]
>Ian.H wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> If this is on a Unix box, just dropping the extension and providing
>> you have '<?php' at the top, the files should be parsed as PHP files.[/color]
>
>It doesn't work -- as I expected, it displays the PHP code. This is on a
>Fedora box with Apache 1.3.29 -- perhaps this works in Apache 2?[/color]

Never used Apache2.. but you're right, it doesn't work for me either. I
must have confused that with something else a long time ago. Apologies
=)

[color=blue][color=green]
>> The other way would be to use mod_rewrite in Apache:
>>
>>
>> RewriteRule /^(files|you|wis h|to|parse|as|p hp)$ /$1.php [L]
>>
>>
>> You'd save the files as foo.php etc, but access to '/foo' would then
>> read the 'foo.php' file without requiring the .php extension.
>>
>>
>> HTH =)[/color]
>
>It does help, but is there a way to do it via an AddType statement in the
>httpd.conf, which AFAIK itself uses mod_rewrite?
>
>Berislav[/color]

You could use AddType statements in vhost sections in httpd.conf or
within .htaccess files per-dir if preferred:

<Files foo>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

etc etc.. the just save the file as 'foo' and all should be sweet =)

HTH more.

Regards,

Ian

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**Berislav Lopac** · Jul 17 '05, 08:24 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

Ian.H wrote:[color=blue]
> You could use AddType statements in vhost sections in httpd.conf or
> within .htaccess files per-dir if preferred:
>
>
> <Files foo>
> ForceType application/x-httpd-php
> </Files>
>
>
> etc etc.. the just save the file as 'foo' and all should be sweet =)
>
> HTH more.[/color]

Nope, sorry. It still just shows the code...

I'm playing with aliases a bit, but I would still like to have a generic
parse via PHP be applied to filenames without extensions, if possible.

Berislav

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**Berislav Lopac** · Jul 17 '05, 08:24 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

Ian.H wrote:[color=blue]
> If this is on a Unix box, just dropping the extension and providing
> you have '<?php' at the top, the files should be parsed as PHP files.[/color]

I have just discovered the strangest thing: if there is a file named foo.php
on the server, just calling /foo works!

E.g. http://localhost/foo = http://localhost/foo.php

Confused, but happy,

Berislav

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**Jeffrey Silverman** · Jul 17 '05, 08:24 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:39:25 +0000, Ian.H wrote:
[color=blue]
> If this is on a Unix box, just dropping the extension and providing you
> have '<?php' at the top, the files should be parsed as PHP files.
>
> Unlike windoze, Unix doesn't stupidly rely on the file extension to tell
> the OS what the file is.[/color]

While the second part is true, the first part is not -- quite. Since
Apache is doing the parsing and not your Unix box, you *do* have to tell
Apache how to parse the files if you want them to be seen by the PHP
engine.

So I think that, as far as web serving goes, a similarly configured Apache
server on *either* Unix or Windows will work the same way. Because the OS
is not doing the parsing -- Apache is.

Not sure how you can configure PHP parsing for files with no extension,
but I would wager it can be done.

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**Andy Hassall** · Jul 17 '05, 08:24 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:23:52 +0200, "Berislav Lopac"
<berislav.lopac @dimedia.hr> wrote:
[color=blue]
>It does help, but is there a way to do it via an AddType statement in the
>httpd.conf,[/color]

Untested, but how about something like

<FilesMatch '^[^.]+$'>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

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**Varavva Yevgen aka xa4anypu** · Jul 17 '05, 08:24 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

"Berislav Lopac" <berislav.lopac @dimedia.hr> ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌ/ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌÁ × ÎÏ×ÏÓÔÑÈ
ÓÌÅÄÕÀÝÅÅ: news:ch1vci$7nc $1@ls219.htnet. hr...[color=blue]
> Ian.H wrote:[color=green]
> > If this is on a Unix box, just dropping the extension and providing
> > you have '<?php' at the top, the files should be parsed as PHP files.[/color]
>
> I have just discovered the strangest thing: if there is a file named[/color]
foo.php[color=blue]
> on the server, just calling /foo works!
>
> E.g. http://localhost/foo = http://localhost/foo.php
>
> Confused, but happy,
>
> Berislav
>
> --
> If the Internet is a Marx Brothers movie, and Web, e-mail, and IRC are
> Groucho, Chico, and Harpo, then Usenet is Zeppo.
>
>[/color]
I have <quote>The requested URL /test was not found on this server.</quote>
though there is test.php

**Michael Fesser** · Jul 17 '05, 08:24 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

.oO(Berislav Lopac)
[color=blue]
>I have just discovered the strangest thing: if there is a file named foo.php
>on the server, just calling /foo works!
>
>E.g. http://localhost/foo = http://localhost/foo.php
>
>Confused, but happy,[/color]

Nothing strange, this is called MultiViews. See the Apache manual entry
on "Content negotiation" for details.

<http://httpd.apache.or g/docs/content-negotiation.htm l>

Micha

**John Dunlop** · Jul 17 '05, 08:24 AM

Re: PHP files without extension

Varavva Yevgen aka xa4anypu wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have <quote>The requested URL /test was not found on this server.</quote>
> though there is test.php[/color]

'Note that Options All does not set MultiViews; you have to
ask for it by name.'

Content Negotiation - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/content-negotiation.html

Since it seems Berislav doesn't want URI suffixes, and isn't
concerned about file extensions, I second Daniel's
suggestion of considering MultiViews.

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Jock

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