Is there a way to automatically add URL extensions? about gulp-connect-php HOT 2 CLOSED

Let me start by saying...

1. I know relatively little about browser-sync
2. Directly. No.

However, you can cheat. Judging purely by the name of that variable you passed in i assume the wp to stand for WordPress... WordPress as well as many PHP websites use Apache's (or equivalent in other environments) mod_rewrite, PHP's dev server is SUPER simple and doesn't implement such a functionality... However it does permit you to roll your own basic compatibility layer...

You want to supply a router command to connect.server. This should be a relative path to a .php file. Basically, PHP will invoke this file on EVERY CALL. You choose what to return as data (and set your own headers) or to include in to that invocation of PHP for the request. This will allow you to examine $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] for a file without a .php ending and include/require it if it exists... This will be invoked for EVERY call, that means resources too... so if it ends in an extension you will be responsible for outputting the Content-Type header (http://php.net/manual/en/book.fileinfo.php might help here... though i relied on Node's mime-db module which i parsed via the JSON decoder because fileinfo wasnt available in all cases for the project i was on) as well as outputting the data (as simple as print file_get_contents($actualFilePath)...

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Sorry about not clarifying that it was indeed relating to a Wordpress build. Thanks for the detailed writeup on how I could work around my issue. Unfortunately due to some other circumstances I can't go about syncing the files as I originally wanted for a localhost anyway, though what you provided was helpful for possible future work.

Thanks for the assistance.

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