htaccess help needed - .htaccess

i'm doing maintenance work on a cms and have found the following htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
i'm having trouble understanding it.
the reason a went looking for the htaccess file is this:
i placed some code in index.php (right now just printing some string to a file but
eventually will do banner cycling) and i've noticed the string gets printed a few times when i load index.php. could that have some connection to the htaccess file?
thanx in advance for any input.

This simply checks whether a file exists (as a file -f, or directory -d). If it does not, it takes the address and passes it to index.php.
For instance if you ask for:
www.mysite.com/badfile.html
You will get:
www.mysite.com/index.php/badfile.html
This should have no effect on how the code in index.php runs. This only affects what happens when non-existent files and directories are requested.

Request is for a file on the webserver, denies access to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
Request is for a physical directory on the webserver, denies access to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
Any other than the above, redirects to index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

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Point to a file in subfolder with .htaccess

I've wanted to move my index.php file from the root to /system/ folder, this is for no reason but giving myself opporunity to learn more about .htaccess, which I am finding very confusing.
How can I achieve this? Currently my code looks as follows
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?query=$1
This allows for example mydomain.com/some-url/ to become /index.php?query=some-url for example, this far I'm with it all. But moving the file into System folder and addind /system/ before /index.php does nothing. How does one do this? Thanks!
This could be done with a simple rewriterule. Please make sure you clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ system/index.php [L]

.htaccess Rewrite Rule Understanding Problems

Site Structure
/articles/Employment/Companies.php
/articles/Employment/Companies/.htaccess
/articles/Employment/Companies/index.php
.htaccess file reads
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ index.php [L]
So when you go to
/articles/Employment/Companies/[company type]
It is displaying the index.php page.
The Problem
I'm trying to link to
/articles/Employment/Companies.php
without the .php being displayed, however if I link to
/articles/Employment/Companies
it is going to
/articles/Employment/Companies/
What i'm Ideally Looking For
Understand why I my site is adding the / when linking to folder/hello
to strip out all .php so if you go to /hello it'll display /hello.php apart from in certain directories such as my current .htaccess file is located where /this or /that will display /index.php.
Please try with below, use from rewritecond with your existing rule what I am doing if the request is actually for php file which is not index.php then serve the extension less code.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule !index.php$ $1.php [L]

How do i use htaccess rules to rewrite to a certain file?

I have to create a page handler, which should read the URL, and do specific operations based on querystring.
I'd need to use .htaccess to do some URL rewriting thing to point everything at a certain file which does the processing, in such a fashion:
https://example.com/folder/page1/
https://example.com/folder/page2/
And the processing file is https://example.com/folder/index.php
Is there any way to do that (possibly by removing the index.php part)?
try this out and see if this helps you achieve what you are looking for.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /folder/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
The above code is taken for reference from WordPress and it should work when the "RewriteBase /folder/" folder name is updated with your folder and .htaccess file has to be placed in the root/folder directory where your index.php file is located.

.htaccess adding new file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /homepage/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /homepage/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
That is my .htaccess code. I have created new file in homepage/test.php and when i visit it from browser it give error of access,
i have tried by replacing index.php with test.php but it still not working.
Can some one explain me how this code work and why not my code is working.
i have deleted .htaccess but its still not working. What else file it can be.
Change
RewriteRule . /homepage/index.php [L]
to:
RewriteRule (.+) /homepage/index.php?page=$1 [L]
P.S. For this to work, your index.php needs to listen for $_GET['page'] and load the appropriate resource.
EDIT: without using the "?page=$1" your code will just display the index page for all requests that are not files or directories. I am not sure if that is what your were going for.

Having trouble using .htaccess for hiding the .php extension

I'm having trouble using .htaccess.
This is the content of my .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.php$ $1 [L]
I opened up a text file, pasted these lines and saved it as .htaccess
It was showing .htaccess before i right clicked the .htaccess file and changed it to "open with notepad". I guess that shouldn't make a difference but now its showing a blank name.
The main problem is when i open my localhost on the browser through wamp, the folder where I've kept the .htaccess file, isn't visible or if i access it shows this internal server error.Now, if i remove the .htaccess file from there, it shows up in the localhost directory and doesn't show an error when i try to open it.
If you're getting the 500 Internal Server Error, your .htaccess file is being read. From what I see, you may be missing spaces before the !:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#-----------------------------^^
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#-----------------------------^^
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.php$ $1 [L]
But if you want your users not to see the .php extension, the RewriteRule is backwards. The first part should not contain the .php:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# The input URL has no PHP, but internally is served as .php
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [L]

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