Rewriteengine in .htaccess to catch files not ending in html

Question

I\'d like to use mod rewrite in to convert web page addresses like /directory to /directory/index.html, in a standard LAMP hosting situatio

Answer 1

Use a RewriteCond directive to check whether the URL path does not end with a .html:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*[^/])?/?$ $1/index.html [L]

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Edit   You’re using a look-ahead assertion ((?!…)). But there isn’t anything after .* (only a $). So try a look-behind assertion instead:

RewriteRule ^.*$(?

But note that you probably need Apache 2.2 to use these assertions.