Remove .html from URLs with a redirect

Question

We have a website, unfortunately all the URLs have the .html suffix, its a Magento installation, Magento allows you to change this on the CMS, but again, unfort

Answer 1

This is for URLs ending with .html /product/raspberrypi.html ---> /product/raspberrypi/ (/product/raspberrypi/index.php) the index.php is hidden. Took me awhile to figure this out. LOL...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

You have to use 'REQUEST_URI' and add it before index redirect rules since it could be overridden by the application. Its important to know that its URI not a filename or directory we are trying to redirect, since the file names all have index.php in the root folders(Wordpress).

Answer 2

Try this to putting in your .htaccess file Redirect permanent www.mysite.de/cool-shoes.html www.mysite.de/cool-shoes this may be helpful to you

Answer 3

Ok so, after some research, and failing to achieve this with a rewrite rule, the following line of code worked:

redirectMatch 301 ^(.*)\.html $1

This is quite usefull to remove any url extension and avoid broken links, hopefully helps someone in the future...

cheers!

Answer 4

Follow the steps, and you'll be able to remove .html from url without modifying .htaccess file.

Answer 5

Try adding the following to the .htaccess file in the root directory of your site redirect URLs with .html extension and remove it.

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
DirectorySlash Off

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME}/ -d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME}.html !-f
RewriteRule [^/]$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule [^/]$ %{REQUEST_URI}.html [QSA,L]

Answer 6

This should do the trick:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(\w+)\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]