Dropping the .html suffix

#1

i want to enable my users to drop the “.html” suffix.

so if they were to enter:

[quote]http://www.mydomain.com/myantp123

[/quote]

i’d want them taken to:

[quote]http://www.mydomain.com/myantp123.html

[/quote]

and of course i’d want that to generalize to any file.

it looks like i do this with mod_rewrite in my .htaccess file?

currently (and this must be the default), it looks like this:

[quote]
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All

[/quote]

some googling indicates this might work?

[quote]RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule (.*) $1.html [L]

[/quote]

i’m not sure what the “l” flag does?
but will this work to do what i want?

thanks so much…

-bowerbird

#2

You don’t even need mod_rewrite for this. In your root-level .htaccess file, place this line:

Options Multiviews Note that you want to avoid having files with similar names if you do this (eg, cats.html and cats.jpg).

Read about Apache content negotiation for more information.

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