PHP
(a quick example)
TURN ON REWRITE ENGINE RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
DO NOT REWRITE EXISTING FILES FOLDERS RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
REDIRECT EVERYTHING TO INDEX.PHP RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
GET CURRENT URL PATH $path = parse_url( $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], PHP_URL_PATH );
SPLIT INTO ARRAY $path = explode("/", rtrim($path, "/\\"));
EXCLUDE BASE PATH define("URL_BASE", "/"); if (substr($path, 0, strlen(URL_BASE)) == URL_BASE) { $path = substr($path, strlen(URL_BASE)); }
"TRANSLATE" URL PATH TO FILE if (count($path)==1) { $file = $path[0]=="" ? "index.html" : $path[0] . ".html"; } else { $file = implode("-", $path) . ".html"; }
LOAD REQUESTED PAGE if (file_exists($file)) { require $file; } else { http_response_code(404); require "404.html"; }