Removing .php extention

I installed a phpBB search engine indexer mod which made an archive for my phpBB forum. It made the URLs look like this;

xxxxx.net/archive/o_f__f_55____start_100__index.html

Now, I recently upgraded to vBulletin and imported all my posts so all the thread ids were different etc. I've managed to make a script that re-directs users to the re-direct if they enter the site through that similar link. The only problem is the script only works if the format is

xxxxx.net/archive.php/o_f__f_55____start_100__index.html (bold for emphasis)

I know that it must be possible to made sure that the script works if you enter the site without the php extention. Any ideas?

I've tried in /public_html/.htacess the following

<files archive> 
ForceType application/x-httpd-php 
</files> 

Code (markup):

with and without .php extention. I got that code from searching for "removing .php extention .htacess". I'm using apache.

Cheers.

 

Try "Options MultiViews" in .htaccess.

 

Thanks for the quick reply. I've just tried that but I still get a 404 error when trying to access;
xxxxx.net/archive/o_f__f_55____start_100__index.html

xxxxx.net/archive.php/o_f__f_55____start_100__index.html works fine though.

 

If you have modrewrite installed you could try something like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(archive.php$)
RewriteRule ^archive/(.*) archive.php/$1 [L,NC]

Not quite sure if the above will work straight off since I havent tested it. If you need help lookup the apache documentation for mod rewrite.

 

Try adding this to your .httaccess file.

<Files archive>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
AcceptPathInfo On
</Files>


and remove the extension from the file "archive.php" so it is actually named "archive". That is if you haven't already done so...

This works on my server..

Let me know if it helps you out.

 

I tried doing that, renaming archive.php to archive then adding;

but when I try access the xxxxx.net/archive/o_f__f_55____start_100__index.html type of URLs, I get a server error. So i commented out the AcceptPathInfo On and that fails to load anything.

Cheers for the help.

 

does "archive" redirect?
is index.html an actual file in this case?

 

I got it working; I took out some other things from my .htaccess and re-tried what you told me and it works.

Cheers for the help +green.