Question

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

This works for links like:

<a href="/subpagewithoutdash">working link (will link to subpagewithoutdash.html)</a>

But it doesn’t work for links with dash:

<a href="/subpage-with-dash">not working link (should link to subpage-with-dash.html)</a>

Any idea of how to fix it? I am sitting on a Windows computer with Xampp installed (localhost).

Answer 1

I can immediately think of two situations would cause this rule not to be applied:

1. subpage-with-dash is the name of a directory in the site root. This would trip the RewriteCond and cause the rule to be skipped.
2. The URL has a period in it. The pattern in the RewriteRule — ^([^\.]+)$) — excludes URLs that contain any periods. So, if subpage-with-dash is actually subpage-with-dash.something, the rule wouldn’t apply.