Modify this rewrite to be automatic

Hello,

At the moment I have this...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(profile|biography|schedule|quotes|career|results|suggestpoll|media|mobile|advertise|about|team|links)(/)?$ $1.php [L]

Please can someone modify this so that I don't need to specify each page in the code but instead it will automatically know to find the related .php page based on what you type /here/ ?

Thanks in advance

 

Perhaps if you use

([a-z]+)

Code (markup):

in place of (profile|.....|links)

Jay

 

Thanks a lot but now when you go to a page that is within a real directory, it gives a 404..? So is there a way to exclude a couple of directories?

 

Add a RewriteCond to check if the file/dir exists, or use a directory name that has something besides the alphabet (i.e. my-images or _images).

Jay

 

That sounds like a good solution, how can I do that?

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)/?$ $1.php [L]

Code (markup):

 

Thank you but there's a slight problem with the code, when there is a php file with a '-' in it, it will give a 404.

/page/ works

/page-page/ 404

 

The regex only matches a-z. If you want it to include a dash then add it in.

RewriteRule ^([a-z-]+)/?$ $1.php [L]

Code (markup):

 

Awesome, thank you!!!

 

After I implemented this, within days my sub-pages started completely vanishing from Google when they previously were #1-4. I've now put back my original .htaccess.