Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP

Hi,

I am trying the URL rewriting for the first time on mysql server (Dreamhost).

I have create .htaccess file with the following:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^contact$ /contact.php [L]
RewriteRule ^team$ /team.php [L]


I suppose this will show www.mydomain.com/contact.php as www.mydomain.com/contact (without the extension) and that's what I want..

and it's working fine.. when I type www.mydomain.com/contact I am getting the page BUT.... I also get www.mydomain.com/contact.php when I type? so is there anyway NOT to show it with .php and just /contact?

hope i explained it well..

$url = "https://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubSessionToken";
$token = $token;
$param['sigalg'] = "rsa-sha1";
$nonce = "15948".time()."49418";  // any random no(20 digit)
$param['data'] = "GET https://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubSessionToken ".time()." ".$nonce;		
$private_key = "MY_PRIVATE_KEY";
		
$kvpairs = array();
foreach ($param as $k => $v) {
array_push($kvpairs, ($k . '=' . $v));
}		
	$query_string = '';
	$query_string = implode('&', $kvpairs);
	$base_string = 'GET'.'&'.$url .'&'.$query_string;
	$param['sig'] =  base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha1', $base_string, $private_key, true));
	uksort($param, 'strcmp');
	$header = 'Authorization: AuthSub token="'.$token.'" ';
        foreach ($param as $k => $v) 
        {
        	$header .= $k . '="' .$v. '" ';
        }
        
        $header = trim($header," ");
	$headers[]= $header;
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
	$responce = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);