How to remove html from URL

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How to remove  html from the URL of a static page    Also  I need to redirect any url with  html to the one without it   i e  www example com page html to www example com page

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This should work for you    example com page will display the contents of example com page html RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  html -f RewriteRule         1 html  L QSA    301 from example com page html to example com page RewriteCond   THE REQUEST    A-Z  3 9        html  HTTP  RewriteRule        html    1  R 301 L

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Thanks for your replies  I have already solved my problem  Suppose I have my pages under http   www yoursite com html  the following  htaccess rules apply    lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt     RewriteEngine On    RewriteCond   THE REQUEST    A-Z  3 9    html      html  HTTP     RewriteRule    http   localhost html  1  R 301 L      RewriteCond   THE REQUEST    A-Z  3 9    html       HTTP     RewriteRule     1 html  L   lt  IfModule gt

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Good question  but it seems to have confused people  The answers are almost equally divided between those who thought Dave  the OP  was saving his HTML pages without the  html extension  and those who thought he was saving them as normal  with  html   but wanting the URL to show up without  While the question could have been worded a little better  I think it   s clear what he meant  If he was saving pages without  html  his two question     how to remove  html   and  how to    redirect any url with  html     would be exactly the same question  So that interpretation doesn   t make much sense  Also  his first comment  about avoiding an infinite loop  and his own answer seem to confirm this  So let   s start by rephrasing the question and breaking down the task  We want to accomplish two things   Visibly remove the  html if it   s part of the requested URL  e g   page html  Point the cropped URL  e g   page  back to the actual file   page html    There   s nothing difficult about doing either of these things   We could achieve the second one simply by enabling MultiViews   The challenge here is doing them both without creating an infinite loop  Dave   s own answer got the job done  but it   s pretty convoluted and not at all portable   Sorry Dave   Lukasz Habrzyk seems to have cleaned up Anmol   s answer  and finally Amit Verma improved on them both  However  none of them explained how their solutions solved the fundamental problem   how to avoid an infinite loop  As I understand it  they work because THE REQUEST variable holds the original request from the browser  As such  the condition  RewriteCond   THE REQUEST   only gets triggered once  Since it doesn   t get triggered upon a rewrite  you avoid the infinite loop scenario  But then you re dealing with the full HTTP request   GET  HTTP and all   which partly explains some of the uglier regex examples on this page  I   m going to offer one more approach  which I think is easier to understand  I hope this helps future readers understand the code they   re using  rather than just copying and pasting code they barely understand and hoping for the best  RewriteEngine on    Remove  html  or htm  from visible URL  permanent redirect  RewriteCond   REQUEST URI          html    nocase  RewriteRule     1  L R 301     Quietly point back to the HTML file  temporary undefined redirect   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  html -f RewriteRule     REQUEST URI  html  END   Let   s break it down    The first rule is pretty simple  The condition matches any URL ending in  html  or  htm  and redirects to the URL without the filename extension  It s a permanent redirect to indicate that the cropped URL is the canonical one  The second rule is simple too  The first condition will only pass if the requested filename is not a valid directory   -d   The second will only pass if the filename refers to a valid file  -f  with the  html extension added  If both conditions pass  the rewrite rule simply adds     html    to the filename  And then the magic happens     END   Yep  that   s all it takes to prevent an infinite loop  The Apache RewriteRule Flags documentation explains it   Using the  END  flag terminates not only the current round of rewrite processing  like  L   but also prevents any subsequent rewrite processing from occurring in per-directory  htaccess  context

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I use this  htacess for removing  html extantion from my url site  please verify this is correct code       RewriteEngine on RewriteBase   RewriteCond   http   www proofers co uk new               RewriteCond   REQUEST fileNAME   -d RewriteCond   REQUEST fileNAME   -f RewriteRule        1 html  L  RewriteCond   THE REQUEST    A-Z  3 9             html  HTTP RewriteRule           html  http   www proofers co uk new  1  R 301 L

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You will need to make sure you have Options -MultiViews as well   None of the above worked for me on a standard cPanel host   This worked   Options -MultiViews RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteRule             1 html  NC L

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I think some explanation of Jon s answer would be constructive  The following   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d   checks that if the specified file or directory respectively doesn t exist  then the rewrite rule proceeds   RewriteRule        html    1  L R 301    But what does that mean  It uses regex  regular expressions   Here is a little something I made earlier      I think that s correct   NOTE  When testing your  htaccess do not use 301 redirects  Use 302 until finished testing  as the browser will cache 301s  See https   stackoverflow com a 9204355 3217306  Update  I was slightly mistaken    matches all characters except newlines  so includes whitespace  Also  here is a helpful regex cheat sheet  Sources   http   community sitepoint com t what-does-this-mean-rewritecond-request-filename-f-d 2034 2  https   mediatemple net community products dv 204643270 using-htaccess-rewrite-rules

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For those who are using Firebase hosting none of the answers will work on this page  Because you can t use  htaccess in Firebase hosting  You will have to configure the firebase json file  Just add the line  cleanUrls   true in your file and save it  That s it   After adding the line firebase json will look like this         hosting          public    public        cleanUrls   true        ignore            firebase json                            node modules

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Resorting to using  htaccess to rewrite the URLs for static HTML is generally not only unnecessary  but also bad for you website s performance  Enabling  htaccess is also an unnecessary security vulnerability - turning it off eliminates a significant number of potential issues  The same rules for each  htaccess file can instead go in a  lt Directory gt  section for that directory  and it will be more performant if you then set AllowOverride None because it won t need to check each directory for a  htaccess file  and more secure because an attacker can t change the vhost config without root access  If you don t need  htaccess in a VPS environment  you can disable it entirely and get better performance from your web server  All you need to do is move your individual files from a structure like this  index html about html products html terms html  To a structure like this  index html about index html products index html terms index html  Your web server will then render the appropriate pages - if you load  about   it will treat that as  about index html  This won t rewrite the URL if anyone visits the old one  though  so it would need redirects to be in place if it was retroactively applied to an existing site

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To remove the  html extension from your URLs  you can use the following code in root htaccess     mode rerwrite start here  RewriteEngine On    does not apply to existing directores  meaning that if the folder exists on server then don t change anything and don t run the rule   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d   Check for file in directory with  html extension   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   html  -f   Here we actually show the page that has  html extension  RewriteRule         1 html  NC L    Thanks

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Use a hash tag  May not be exactly what you want but it solves the problem of removing the extension  Say you have a html page saved as about html and you don t want that pesky extension you could use a hash tag and redirect to the correct page  switch window location hash substring 1          case  about         window location    about html         break       Routing to yoursite com about will take you to yoursite com about html  I used this to make my links cleaner

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RewriteRule         html     1  R 301 L     Try this    don t know if it works

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With  htaccess under apache you can do the redirect like this   RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule        html    1  L R 301     As for removing of  html from the url  simply link to the page without  html   lt a href  http   www example com page  gt page lt  a gt

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To remove the  html extension from your urls  you can use the following code in root htaccess    RewriteEngine on   RewriteCond   THE REQUEST            html  NC  RewriteRule     1  NC L R   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  html -f RewriteRule     REQUEST URI  html  NC L    NOTE  If you want to remove any other extension  for example to remove the  php extension  just replace the html everywhere with php in the code above

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