.htaccess - lose the file .html extension

Question

I'm having a bad .htaccess day!

I want a user to be able to type the URL

mysite.com/about

instead of

mysite.com/about.html

On .htaccess file I have:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /$1.html [NC,L]

But this simply does not work?

I will add though that if i try this further inside the site e.g.

mysite.com/pages/contact

Works perfectly whether I have the above code in the .htaccess or not

What am I doing wrong?

Not a direct solution, but moving the file to about/index.html gives you the same result.
There should be NO leading slash when matching in RewriteRule if placed in .htaccess. Try this: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1.html [NC,L]
Also, instead of using mod_rewrite, you can look at Options directive, MultiViews in particular: httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#options

sha404 · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-30 13:22:22Z

up vote 2 down vote accepted

just avoid slashes before both matching patterns and destination. So,

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [NC,L]

should work perfectly.

answered Mar 30 '12 at 13:22

sha404

migrated from stackoverflow.com Mar 31 '12 at 23:35