.htaccess Rewrite index.php back to directory where index.php is located -

i have directory of localhost/testing/pages/index.php

how redirect user localhost/testing/pages/ whenever enter localhost/testing/pages/index.php index.php extension?

i have tried use this:

rewriteengine on rewrite %{request_filename} !-f rewriterule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [nc] 

but not work.

thanks!

try:

rewritecond %{the_request} ^[a-z]{3,9}\ /(.*)index\.php rewriterule ^ /%1 [l,r=301]