.htacces for rewriting urls problem

Joris van Lier wrote:
> <rant>
> Why is everybody so intent on not following file extension conventions?
> These were invented long ago for a purpose: so that the type of file can
> be obtained by looking at it's name, without opening the file to see
> what's in it.
> </rant>

SEO optimization, somewhere someone either figured out or decided that a
folder/file path with proper search terms in them, /cars/nissan/altima
beats /index.php?id=3 for ranking and placement in the results of a
search. Blame Google.

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"nickBND" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm using an .htacces files for rewriting my URLs e.g:
>

• www.host.com/index.php?cat=1&id=7
  > will be writtin as
  >
• www.host.com/index/cars/porsche
  >
  > This is the .htacces code I'm using:
  > <Files index>
  > ForceType application/x-httpd-php
  > </Files>
  >
  > Doing this forces me to delete the extensions of my php files, but now DW
  > CS3
  > can't read them anymore (not by double clicking on the file that is). Is
  > there
  > way to avoid this or is there a better way using .htacces to achieve this?
  >
  > Regards,
  > Nick
  
  <rant>
  Why is everybody so intent on not following file extension conventions?
  These were invented long ago for a purpose: so that the type of file can be
  obtained by looking at it's name, without opening the file to see what's in
  it.
  </rant>
  
  If you want to let users access these files without entering an extension
  rewrite url's without an extension accordingly
  
  # not a file
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  #not a directory
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  #capture url and rewrite with extension , append querystring and end
  rewriting
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1.php [QSA,L]
  
  --
  Joris van Lier