how to remove *.php extension in address url ?

[BrainPill 1]

I have a question about apache.

I have WAMP version 3.1.9

apache 2.4.39

I want to remove the *.php extension in the url

in the .htaccess file which I placed in the directory ; I added the following code

 
 RemoveType *.php

but still when going to a page I see the php extension

in the apache pages I read that the loaded module should be mod_mime 

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_mime.html#removetype

(i can see its loaded when checking php_info() ) 

still I dont have any result. 

What more directives are needed?

Or is there another approach for removing file extensions?

 

[dsonesuk 896]

Look up mod_rewrite. Make sure its enabled first.

[BrainPill 1]

it is enabled. I can see it in php_info() in the list under apache2handler : loaded modules

Other directives do work in the .htaccess file, but this one doesn't.

Are there additional requirements?

Edited February 25 by BrainPill

[BrainPill 1]

I tried to put this in the htaccess file

AllowOverride All
 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

But this makes the request crash

the apache error logs tells: 

Quote

[Tue Feb 25 13:52:53.697348 2020] [core:alert] [pid 10960:tid 1236] [client ::1:50614] C:/wamp64/www/mydirectory/.htaccess: AllowOverride not allowed here, referer: http://www.myvirthost.loc

Why is this error showing up?

[dsonesuk 896]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35508635/allowoverride-not-allowed-here

[BrainPill 1]

13 hours ago, dsonesuk said:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35508635/allowoverride-not-allowed-here

I have this direction placed in the vhosts file

 

 Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
 	   Require all granted

Could it be any other script that still overrides this ? I tried the same ones in the httpd.conf file but I am not sure how to do it. 

Is the httpd directive more determining for instance ?

What else could it be? 

 

[BrainPill 1]

I solved it meanwhile

[dsonesuk 896]

You need to restart all services.

Edited February 26 by dsonesuk