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Timothy Alexander
Timothy Alexander

Reputation: 23

What are the differences between these two .htaccess code?

So I've searched very hard on trying to understand the differences between these two pieces of code, but I could not find it. I am trying to remove the ".html" extension from the url but I always see two different codes being used from different websites.

The first code is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The second code is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html

From my understanding the first code seems to replace any characters that used to be in that .html path (eg. example.com/home.html) to replace it without the .html extension (eg. example.com/home). Both seems to keep coming up however, in many different websites. That is why I would like to ask if anyone know the differences between the both and what both of these pieces of codes actually mean?

Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 43

Answers (1)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 944003

The first matches any request for a path ending in .html and tells the browser that it should ask for the same path, on example.com without the .html.

The second matches any request for any path and tells the server to add .html to the end of it and deliver that to the browser.

Upvotes: 2

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