How to hide php file extension with Apache2

While ago I've done some research about this one and I found with two different way of hiding the .php file extension

  1. Use AddType to specify how each filetype should be handled: http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/01/hiding-php-file-extension.html

    This way it will skip using the mod_rewrite engine thus saving some time on parsing, but you need to rename the .php file by changing its extension to .html

    # Method 1 rename .php files to .html
# eg. script.php to script.html then
# make all PHP code look like HTML with
AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html

  2. Use mod_rewrite to rewrite the URL to point to right file.

    This method doesn't require to change the file extension.

    # Method 2 with Rewrite without renaming files
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^\.\?]+)(\?.*)?$ $1.php

    Roshan's Blog also has an article about mod_rewrite with few examples of url rewriting for seo friendly URL: http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/02/hide-php-url-rewriting-htaccess.html

Danilo