Question

when I first set up my site I decided to add index.html to the URL but now I have problems with when people remove the index.html and try and access the folder…

For example:

RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/index.html archive.php?mid=$1-$2

So when archives/07/2009/ it will cause an error, how can I avoid this error?
Cheers

Answer 1

Make the index.html optional in your RewriteRule:

RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(?:index\.html)?$ archive.php?mid=$1-$2

Also, in your original rewrite rule, you forgot your end of string anchor $. I’ve added it above.