I have researched until my brain hurts numerous times. Removing the extension in the browser should rather be an easy rewrite rule. I have found four different ways and yet again, none of them are working.

Granted, the current site is hosted on godaddy, however I have used one of these methods before on this same hosting and it has worked before, however only some of the time?

Yes it is an Apache server.
Yes mod_rewrite is enabled.
Yes I am removing the extension in the href links.


First and most common method I believe, not working:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

Second method with a failed attempt:

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

Third way which is failing:

RewriteRule ^index$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^page$ page.php [L

And lastly, I think is the correct way since it actually rewrites the link appending the extension, however still failing (this is the method that has worked before):

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^.]+)$ /$1.php [L]

Any help greatly appreciated...