Question

Is there a simple way to remove the .html from a URL namespace? For example, if I have www.mywebsite.com/special.html how can I make this www.mywebsite.com/special

Again, I’m using Apache on an Amazon EC2 instance. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Put this in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ /$1

Make sure that mod_rewrite is installed and AllowOverride includes FileInfo.

Edit on how to get mod_rewrite working:

Usually, mod_rewrite already comes with apache, but sometimes needs to be enabled by the command

a2enmod rewrite

The AllowOverride directive sets permissions for .htaccess files. For mod_rewrite, FileInfo is required. To set this, change in your apache config file (usually /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) the line

AllowOverride None

to

AllowOverride FileInfo

or

AllowOverride All