Question

I have a site and need htaccess code to make this change in the address bar without making any physical changes in the server folders

example.com/data/65767.html
to be
example.com/65767

example.com/data/56-45.html
to be
example.com/56-45

Regards

Answer 1

Horribly inefficient, you need to make sure your links get changed to point to the one without .html, but…

RewriteEngine On

# externally redirect so that the browser shows the non-.html URL
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST|HEAD)\ /data/([0-9-]+)\.html
RewriteRule ^ /%2 [L,R=301]

# internally rewrite the non-.html URI back to the .html URI
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/data%{REQUEST_URI}.html -f
RewriteRule ^/?([0-9-]+)$ /data/$1.html [L]

This works with /data/<any number of digits or "-"> URIs. If you want it to work with anything, replace the [0-9-] with .

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EDIT:

can we also redirect example.com/65767.html to be example.com/65767 and the content from example.com/data/65767.html

Yeah, just change the first rule to:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST|HEAD)\ /(data/)?([0-9-]+)\.html
RewriteRule ^ /%3 [L,R=301]