How to remove .html from URL?

Question

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.exam

Answer 1

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]

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