Title: [Plugin: Redirection] Files with .php extension won't redirect
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# [Plugin: Redirection] Files with .php extension won't redirect
* [Jamil Jonna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonna/)
* (@jonna)
* [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-files-with-php-extension-wont-redirect/)
* [second posting—please help or at least give me a pointer. thanks.]
* I’m probably missing something simple but I’m unable to get redirects working
for files with a .php extension. Other files, whether they have .htm or .html
extensions redirect fine. I thought this had to do with the existing wordpress
rewrite rules but deleting them changed nothing.
* I’m working in a beta directory that is protected (monthlyreview.org/_beta01).
The files don’t even exist in this directory, they are in root but this shouldn’t
matter according to the documentation (plus the .htm redirects work fine).
* What is it about the .php extension that is causing the problem? Any help is
much appreciated.
* P.S. I’ve messed with the options quite a bit to no avail. And I’ve also searched
the documentation.
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* Thread Starter [Jamil Jonna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonna/)
* (@jonna)
* [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-files-with-php-extension-wont-redirect/#post-1642168)
* Again, whenever I try and redirect a URL with a .php extension, it simply doesn’t
work. URLs with .htm or .html extensions work fine but .php redirects simply
break. Do I have to use RegEx to redirect these URLs?
* redirect source: `/_beta01/598einst.php` (if .php is changed to .htm it works
fine)
redirect: `/_beta01/blog/magazine/1998/05/01/why-socialism-2`
* error:
`You've submitted a request for a file that does not exist on this server.
Please correct your URI and try, try again. (none) 71.193.180.187 /_beta01/598einst.
php monthlyreview.org Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US;
rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 404`
* Many thanks ahead of time…
* J
* [bquass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bquass/)
* (@bquass)
* [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-files-with-php-extension-wont-redirect/#post-1642280)
* Hey Jamil,
* Did you ever find out what the problem was? I’m having the exact same problem
with my .htaccess file. I can redirect html pages but I can’t seem to redirect
php pages.
* Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
* (@johnny5)
* [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-files-with-php-extension-wont-redirect/#post-1642282)
* No, Redirection doesn’t need anything special for .php files. More than likely
your web server is grabbing the URL before Redirection has a chance and trying
to run it as a PHP file. You will need to reconfigure your server to change this
behaviour.
* Thread Starter [Jamil Jonna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonna/)
* (@jonna)
* [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-files-with-php-extension-wont-redirect/#post-1642284)
* [@john](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john/): that’s a vague reply—can
you clarify?
* I’m still not sure what the problem is but I think it something to do with the
fact that my site is password protected at the moment because it is in beta.
* If it does have something to do with the server configuration then what should
be changed? Obviously the site is handling the PHP files for WordPress just fine:
what makes this different?
* Jamil
* Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
* (@johnny5)
* [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-files-with-php-extension-wont-redirect/#post-1642285)
* Well… pretty much what I said! Your web server (Apache, for example) is configured
to handle .php files itself. It is probably handling .php files itself before
it passes them on to PHP and WordPress. I can’t say what exactly you’ll need
to change as it could be any number of configuration issues, but have a look
in your .htaccess file and your server config.
* Thread Starter [Jamil Jonna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonna/)
* (@jonna)
* [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-files-with-php-extension-wont-redirect/#post-1642291)
* Can you explain, then, why .php redirections work fine in non-wordpress directories?
In other words, I’m making 301 redirects using .htacces in another directory (
and they are specific redirections, not rules). There are no rewrite rules for
PHP files, only 301 redirects, mostly from .htm to .php but some .php to .htm.
* Here are some examples (keep in mind, this is in my root directory, not the _beta01
directory I’m using for building the new site):
* ```
Redirect 301 /598einst.php http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einstein.php
Redirect 301 /0902achcar.htm http://www.monthlyreview.org/
Redirect 301 /0506tiger.htm http://www.monthlyreview.org/0506tigar.htm
```
* Aside from some rewrite rules dealing with a specific subdirectory, this is all
that exists in .htaccess:
* ```
RewriteEngine on
#Options All -Indexes
#IndexIgnore .htaccess
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
order deny,allow
deny from all
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
```
* In the wordpress (i.e. ‘_beta01’) directory, this is all that is in .htaccess(
that is relevant):
* ```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /_beta01/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress
```
* If the above isn’t relevant and basic server configurations conflict with Redirection,
there should be some documentation on the issue. I don’t have my server set up
in any special way—the site is hosted by a large company, with the ubiquitous
Cpanel backend.
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