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Darran
Darran

Reputation: 11

Drop the .html from URL in .htaccess

I am having a hard time trying to drop the .html for our newly updated website through .htaccess. I have tried a number of different lines of code copy and pasted from the internet, but I'm sure it's something simple that I just don't have the experience to see!

In short, I want to make this request (which is a 404) drop the .html:

http://mysite/cmt-grooving-sblade.html

To this:

http://mysite/cmt-grooving-sblade

Any help you could give will be I will be very grateful for!

So far, my .htaccess looks like this. The first section was already there, the rest is my recent attempt.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Upvotes: 1

Views: 82

Answers (2)

KOUSIK MANDAL
KOUSIK MANDAL

Reputation: 2052

Try this;

RewriteEngine on

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
RewriteRule .* - [e=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]

Upvotes: 0

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 4897

You can use this to remove .html from your URLs:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /([^.]+)\.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [NC,L,R]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.html [NC,L]

It will leave you with your desired URL: http://mysite/cmt-grooving-sblade. Make sure you clear your cache before testing this.

Upvotes: 1

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