Question

I’m adding a http://www if it’s missing in the URL. If a redirect happends the .html extension gets added for some reason:

example.com/about > htaccess > http://www.example.com/about.html

Why does the .html gets added?
This is my htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I’ld like to have the link without the .html part like this:

example.com/about > htaccess > http://www.example.com/about

Thanks.
Uli

Answer 1

Do this:

Rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f
Rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d
Rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} !-l
RewriteRule ^([\w\d\-]+)$ $1.html [L] 

I suggest you to use http://www.example.com/whatever instead of http://www.example.com/whatever.html in your h refs.