Getting rid of the .html extension

Pádraig · #1 Jun 4th, 2007, 17:35

How do I get rid of the .html extension so in the address bar my website would show up like this.

http://example.com/link

And not

http://example.com/links.html

Thanks,
Pádraig.

karinne · #2 Jun 4th, 2007, 18:45

link should be a folder. And the links.html should a default page set up by the server (usually default.htm(.html, .php, etc....) or index.htm (.html, .php, etc....) ) in that folder.

So ... it would be something like this http://www.example.com/link/index.html but you don't have to put index.html

Confused yet?

Daniel · #3 Jun 4th, 2007, 19:07

I am!

Pádraig · #4 Jun 4th, 2007, 19:48

Very.

So in my navigation I would have...

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<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a href="/links/">Links</li>
</ul>
</div>

Would that be right?

karinne · #5 Jun 4th, 2007, 21:12

yes ... and that page you referring to would have to be an index.html page within the links directory

Ryan Fait · #6 Jun 4th, 2007, 21:46

For a live example, http://ryanfait.com/ and http://ryanfait.com/index.php are the exact same pages. Because index.php is named as it is, you don't have to specify the file name in the browser.

Pádraig · #7 Jun 4th, 2007, 22:02

I think I got it working.

Thanks for the help!

JacobHaug · #8 Jun 9th, 2007, 06:24

Hahaha...how funny you are Dan. Here is a funny quick fix to get rid of the .html extension if you don't feel like placing it in a folder. All you have to do is rename the .html bit to .php and you are done!

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