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Vivek Narula
Vivek Narula

Reputation: 515

Remove HTML extension with web config permanently

I am trying to remove html extension from pages using web.config. Below is the code i am using in web.config file

<rewrite>
  <rules>
    <rule name="rewrite html">
      <match url="(.*)$" />
      <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" negate="true" pattern="(.*).html" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}.html" />
    </rule> 
  </rules>
</rewrite>

it is working fine and removing html extension, however there seems to be 2 problems here :

  1. When i put 'slash' it does not work and gives me not found errors. For example: http://example.com/my-page/ now it will not work, but I put http://example.com/my-page then it will work fine, so i would like to both of them to work

  2. Other problem is that .html pages are still opening. For example, if I open the page as http://example.com/my-page.html it is also working but I want it to convert to http://example.com/my-page automatically, I know I can use 301 redirects for this but that will not work as there are many of files here, so I have to use different 301 rules for different URLs.

Please Advice.

Thanks

Upvotes: 20

Views: 21010

Answers (3)

Jon R
Jon R

Reputation: 896

If you want to do this on a per-website basis using the local IIS server on Windows 10, install the URL Rewrite module and then put this in web.config in the root of your virtual directory:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <remove name="Redirecting .html ext" />
                <remove name="Hide .html ext" />
                <rule name="Hide .html ext" enabled="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)" ignoreCase="true" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html" matchType="IsFile" />
                    </conditions>
                    <serverVariables />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:0}.html" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Redirecting .html ext" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*).html" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
                        <add input="{URL}" pattern="^(.*)\.html$" />
                    </conditions>
                    <serverVariables />
                    <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Upvotes: 4

feeeper
feeeper

Reputation: 3017

URLRewrite 2.0 rule (insert this part inside system.webServer node) that replaces .html from url:

<rewrite>
    <rules>
        <rule name="Hide .html ext">
            <match ignoreCase="true" url="^(.*)"/>
            <conditions>
                <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true"/>
                <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true"/>
                <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html" matchType="IsFile"/>
            </conditions>
            <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:0}.html"/>
        </rule>
        <rule name="Redirecting .html ext" stopProcessing="true">
            <match url="^(.*).html"/>
            <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
                <add input="{URL}" pattern="(.*).html"/>
            </conditions>
            <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}"/>
        </rule>
    </rules>
</rewrite>

Upvotes: 38

Merlin8771
Merlin8771

Reputation: 369

I know this is almost a year latter but I'll try. I'm not sure I understand your problem correctly but if I do I just use 

    <system.webServer>
     <caching>
      <profiles>
       <remove extension=".php" />
       <remove extension=".html" />
       <add extension=".html" policy="CacheUntilChange" kernelCachePolicy="CacheUntilChange" duration="23:59:59" varyByQueryString="*" />
       <add extension=".php" policy="CacheUntilChange" kernelCachePolicy="CacheUntilChange" duration="00:00:30" varyByQueryString="*" />
             </profiles>
             </caching>
             <directoryBrowse enabled="false" />
             <defaultDocument>

Then the rest of the closing statements that you are using.

Upvotes: 0

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