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SpaceApe
SpaceApe

Reputation: 639

Removing the index.html from url

Ok, maybe a pretty dumb question but I can't find an answer on Google.

I am coding my site by hand. How do I make the index.html disappear from the url's? Do I use a piece of code in my html? Do I have to change my href's in my files?

Hope you guys can help!

EDIT: I've tried this with a .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^index\.html$ / [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^(.*)/index\.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

It does work, but all my links aren't working anymore. I discovered I had to remove all the index.html from the href's in my documents. But that would be a lot of work. Is there an other code for .htaccess that just hides index.html?

Upvotes: 20

Views: 111406

Answers (8)

cnst
cnst

Reputation: 27218

Great SEO idea! This is similar to nginx redirect loop, remove index.php from url and Apache .htaccess to hide both .php and .html extentions, as well as mod_rewrite not working htaccess — the idea here, for both Apache's mod_rewrite and nginx ngx_http_rewrite, depends on the differences between the external and internal URLs — in order for the redirect from /index.html to / work, yet not cause redirect loops when actually serving index.html, you gotta make sure you only issue the redirect for external index.html requests, but never for internal ones; this can only be accomplished by looking into the actual request_uri.

Here's the code for nginx ngx_mod_rewrite:

index   index.html  index.txt;
if ($request_uri ~ "^(.*/)index\.(html|txt)$") {    return  301 $1; }

On Apache's mod_rewrite, it'll be something like the following:

RewriteEngine   on
RewriteCond     %{REQUEST_URI}      ^.*/index\.html$
RewriteRule     ^(.*/)index.html$   $1      [R,L]

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Upvotes: 0

Joe Harper
Joe Harper

Reputation: 470

I think this is configured in IIS when you deploy the site, I'm not to sure on it but I'm sure you can specify a start point that your URL will use when you just enter the UL, that implies the Index.html page.

Sorry I'm not too helpful here, hopefully it will point you in the right direction.

Often these things such as Apache or IIS have this set up already, and it looks for the Index.html, Index.php first when you just put your URL in.

Upvotes: 0

Ashish Yadav
Ashish Yadav

Reputation: 133

You need to create a file called '.htaccess' in the root directory of your site containing the following code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

And then make sure all the links on your site don't contain '.html' at the end, e.g.:

<a href="/Home.html">

should be replaced with:

<a href="/Home">

Hope this helps!

if you dont find .htaccess, you just need to create a new file using your text editor the same way you would any other html or css file, but save it as simply '.htaccess'

And save it into the root directory, so the same folder that you have your index.html file.

Upvotes: 0

murtuza hussain
murtuza hussain

Reputation: 498

mod_rewrite module is responsible for all the rewriteEngine. Check on your server whether is module is present and enable.

Upvotes: 0

Darko Atanasov
Darko Atanasov

Reputation: 475

A SIMPLE WAY TO DO THIS in Html:

(example in my case is a simple dual language site)

If your link looks like this:

<a href="index.html">Homepage</a>

You should change it to this:

<a href="/">Homepage</a>

If trying to link to another folder in your directory, like is my example:

<a href="en/index.html">English language</a>

You should change it to this:

<a href="en">English language</a>

Notice that "/" goes back to your root directory and automatically selects index.html, so that is why I used "en" for the English language site, because the name of the folder in that case is "en". You should also make sure that you have index.html in your English language folder, and not index-en.html.

Upvotes: 34

vogomatix
vogomatix

Reputation: 5041

Apache has .htaccess files and mod_rewrite, In your .htaccess file, set:

DirectoryIndex index.html

You can also set this up in the Apache site config files too

You can specify a list of filenames, so if it doesn't find the first it moves to the next.

IIS has .config files

Upvotes: 3

Steve Martin
Steve Martin

Reputation: 1642

Simply don't type the index.html in your browser and don't advertise it as such.

You can set the 'default document' on the web server (whichever you happen to be using) to serve 'index.html' in the absence of a file part. This way, someone going to http://www.mysite.com would be served http://www.mysite.com/index.html

Upvotes: -4

AlexanderFT
AlexanderFT

Reputation: 73

Change the link that goes to your homepage to the website address. You may have:

<a href="index.html">Link Here</a>

Change that to:

<a href="http://www.domain.com">Link</a>

Or try this

Upvotes: -1

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