Question Moving from cpanel to Plesk Obsidian problems with url rewriting

[balistuart]

Server operating system version

Ubuntu 24.04

Plesk version and microupdate number

18.0.67 #2

Hi,
I’m in the process of moving a site from cpanel to Plesk Obsidian and am having problems with “friendly urls”

Site urls take the format:
www.example.com/shop/apples/bananas/pineapple

where shop is the actual PHP file and apples, bananas etc are like query string equivalents—the shop file grabs them and essentially handles as if querything variables etc

On cpanel, handled this with an entry like this in .htaccess:

<Files shop>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php82
</Files>
<Files shop2>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php82
</Files>
<Files shop3>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php82
</Files>

etcetera

So I’m trying to get Plesk to process specific extention-less file names (no .php) as php files, but for the life of me I can’t figure it out.

Any help, pointers to resources that explain how to do this, would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[Daveo]

<Files shop>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php82
</Files>
<Files shop2>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php82
</Files>
<Files shop3>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php82
</Files>
...etc...

Add these lines to your domain's Apache & nginx page

Log into Plesk > [Your Domain] > Hosting & DNS > Apache & nginx

Add above quoted text to Additional Apache directives in both HTTP & HTTPS boxes


Then remove those lines from the .htaccess file

 

[balistuart]

Hi,
Thank you, but unfortunately that — and a bunch of other approaches — didn’t work.

In the end I gave up and instead rewrote the code of the various pages, renamed them with a .php suffix and then set up a series or rewrite rules that used the approach below to sent the request to the .php version of the file, and that worked.

RewriteRule ^shop/([^/]+)/?$ shop.php?apples=$1 [L,QSA]

Was, ahhhhh, a bit more work than I had planned on, but sorted it out in the end!
Cheers