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, unfortunately all this URLs with .html
suffix have a good ranking in Google. We need to redirect to non .html
.
So, consider the following scenario, we are rebuilding this site from scratch, so we have the same urls on the new site but without the .html suffix.
www.example.de/cool-shoes.html
www.example.de/cool-shoes
So www.example.de/cool-shoes.html
will not exist anymore, and I've been trying a redirect with the .htaccess with no luck.
I've tried so far:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule (.*)index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]
and:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html
but it doesn't seem to work...any ideas?
Ok so, after some research, and failing to achieve this with a rewrite rule, the following line of code worked:
redirectMatch 301 ^(.*)\.html $1
This is quite usefull to remove any url extension and avoid broken links, hopefully helps someone in the future...
cheers!
This will rewrite the url like so http://example.com/page.html -> http://example.com/page
# Remove .html from url
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html
Try adding the following to the .htaccess file in the root directory of your site redirect URLs with .html extension and remove it.
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
DirectorySlash Off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME}/ -d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME}.html !-f
RewriteRule [^/]$ %{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]
Here's the solution that worked for me.
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [L]
Follow the steps, and you'll be able to remove .html from url without modifying .htaccess file.
This should do the trick:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(\w+)\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]
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