How to show HTML website URLs like wordpress

Question

I'm creating a website for my personal needs. I have different pages like index.html, about.html, contact.html etc... The default way of showing them is mysite.com/index.html or mysite.com/contact.html

But is there any way to hide the extension part .html and just to show the url main texts like mysite.com/about/ or mysite.com/contact/ ??

Please advice me.

Well `mysite.com/about/` is generally the same as `mysite.com/about/index.html` (depending on server settings). For a more dynamic approach you would use URL Rewriting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_engine — Alex K., Feb 05 '14 at 12:57

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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You have to use a URL rewrite engine, edit (or create) the .htaccess like that:

# Remove .html from url
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html

For more details: Remove .html from URLs with a redirect

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Feb 05 '14 at 12:59

Zealot

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Adding to this answer, your web server has to support url rewriting. For Apache (one of the most used) you have to install a module called mod_rewrite. For other web servers, look at the docs if they support it. – Roberto Maldonado Feb 05 '14 at 13:02
Okay, I will check this. – user1012181 Feb 05 '14 at 13:04

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 05 '14 at 12:58

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It's possible to show your page with mysite.com/about/

You need to replace all file name to index.html
Eg : about.html to index.html
Add index.html to their respective pages, like

Before:

www/
|
|-about/about.html
|
|-contact/contact.html
|
|-etc/etc.html

After :

www/
|
|-about/index.html
|
|-contact/index.html
|
|-etc/index.html

Now when you hit the URL www.yourSite.com/about that page will be shown. (without about.html part)

answered Feb 05 '14 at 12:58

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-1. Sorry, that's a really poor suggestion. – BenM Feb 05 '14 at 13:01
he haven't mentioned any server side URL rewriting for this, so basic OP is this I believe! – yashhy Feb 05 '14 at 13:02
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It's irrelevant if the OP mentioned it or not. This is a bad solution. – BenM Feb 05 '14 at 13:03
OP didn't mentioned it because maybe he didn't know. Your intentions were good, but far from optimal – Roberto Maldonado Feb 05 '14 at 13:07
What is this OP anyway?? OutPut? – user1012181 Feb 05 '14 at 13:10
@user1012181 OP == Original Post/Poster – ataulm Feb 05 '14 at 13:18

How to show HTML website URLs like wordpress

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