Question

I currently have this:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /folder/

RewriteRule ^(.+) $1.html [NC]

I have html pages in that folder and I want the files to serve other pages. eg:

/folder/about should serve /folder/about.html

/folder/test should serve /folder/test.html

The question is that the above rewrite script give me a 500 internal error. How do I achieve what I want to do?

EDIT:

I see this error in the error log:

Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.

Answer 1

Maybe there’s a slash problem. Try this:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /folder/
RewriteCond $1 !\.html$
RewriteRule (.*) $1.html [QSA,NC,L]

If it doesn’t work try:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /folder
RewriteCond $1 !\.html$
RewriteRule (.*) $1.html [QSA,NC,L]

If you want to change only letters and numbers (e.g. wwW.site.com/abdd0456 but not www.site.com/afdf/sdqfsd) then do something like:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /folder/
RewriteCond $1 !\.html$
RewriteRule ([a-zA-Z0-9]*) $1.html [QSA,NC,L]

[Edit: add the L directive]