I have a subdirectory contact and inside contact.php and contact_content.php and .htaccess file
In .htaccess file I have following code:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/contact/contact.php
RewriteRule ^ /contact [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/$ contact.php [NC,L,END]
# deny access
RewriteRule ^(contact_content)\.php - [F,L,NC]
Deny access part and the first rewrite rule work perfectly but
the problem is the second rewriterule-> when I go to localhost/contact I am shown the list of files in contact directory instead of contact.php site
This works for me-> modified Sahil Gulati answer
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/contact/contact.php
RewriteRule ^ /contact [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/contact/?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /contact/contact.php [L,QSA,END]
RewriteRule ^(contact_content)\.php - [F,L,NC]
Hopefully it will work fine.
RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} contact\.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /contact [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/contact/?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1/contact.php [L,QSA,END]
RewriteRule ^(contact_content)\.php - [F,L,NC]