.htaccess url rewriting

Question

This is my .htaccess. It redirects /contact to index.php?page=contact
This works perfectly. But with this .htaccess, if someone puts /contact.php, they'll get an error.

Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1  [QSA]

Basically, is there any way to only rewrite if there's no .php in the URL?
If there's a .php in the URL, e.g. contact.php just load the normal .php page.

How could I do this?

possible duplicate of [mod\_rewrite to remove .php but still serve the .php file?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1698464/mod-rewrite-to-remove-php-but-still-serve-the-php-file) — typeoneerror, May 28 '13 at 14:27

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '13 at 14:29

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Add something like this before the RewriteRule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

-f means "is a file". With this rule you are saying "requested file name is not an existing file" (in the DocumentRoot, ofc).

More info and options: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond

answered May 28 '13 at 14:29

Sergio Álvarez

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Thanks for that! Could you help me for the 2nd part? – Yannick Bloem May 28 '13 at 14:54
Try this: `RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.php$ [NC]` (source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1698464/mod-rewrite-to-remove-php-but-still-serve-the-php-file) – Sergio Álvarez May 29 '13 at 08:35

.htaccess url rewriting

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