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apache.htaccessmod-rewriteapache2.4
migdsb
migdsb

Reputation: 705

Rewriting URL by appending .html suffix

I'm attempting to use mod_rewrite with Apache 2.4 to append the suffix .html to request URIs.

The URIs that should be rewritten are very simple and take the following form:

http://host.domain/page/

The above needs to be rewritten to http://host.domain/page.html. Only constraint is that the rewriting logic must ignore URIs referencing actual files or directories.

So far the rewriting snippet I came up with works fine if there is no trailing slash, however if one is present Apache emits a 404 and the following error message:

The requested URL /redirect:/about.html was not found on this server.

(the above happens when the URI is http://localhost/about/)

Could someone help me debug this? Why is Apache prepending /redirect:?

Here's a very simple snippet that reproduces the symptoms:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])/$ /$1 [C]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^$
RewriteRule (.*) /$1.html [L,R=301] # Tried without R=301 too

# This doesn't work either.
# RewriteRule ^about/$ /about.html [L,R=301]

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1801

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785128

You can use:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# strip trailing slash from non-directoies
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

# make sure corresponding html file exists
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.html [L]

Upvotes: 3

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