Custom file name extension for Apache webserver

Question

I pay for a very common LAMP webhost. I was wondering if I could have custom extensions for my files. Let' say I have this url, for instance:

http://www.mysite/custom.php

how do I change that to something like:

http://www.mysite/custom.name

just to give an example.

Notice I'm not mentioning changing the index.php. I have a XAMPP server setup here in my PC, and it works just fine, with out altering anything. Can that be accomplished on an LAMP webhost?

Thank you.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '13 at 19:39

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The short answer is YES.

You'll have to make a few configuration adjustments of course.

But why would you want to do that? It makes things messy, hard to maintain, and may cause some application incompatibilities if you are not careful.

answered Jun 12 '13 at 19:39

mdpc

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ok, do you know what those are? – Andres Guzman Jun 12 '13 at 19:41
i mean the changes i have to make? thank you. – Andres Guzman Jun 12 '13 at 19:47
If I were to do something like this I'd be looking at http://httpd.apache.org specifically with the directives concerning the mod_rewrite and the mod_mime modules that are standard and applying them accordingly. – mdpc Jun 12 '13 at 19:51

Custom file name extension for Apache webserver

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