Is it possible for people to access a webpage without having to write .html at the end?

[tstonly]

Is it possible for people to access a webpage without having to write .html at the end?
For example is it possible to make it work so that someone can write http://onlythebestoftheweb.x10.mx/submit instead of http://onlythebestoftheweb.x10.mx/submit.html

On most websites you dont have to write .html so i know this has to be possible.

 

[descalzo]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5730092/how-to-remove-html-from-url

 

[tstonly]

I copy pasted that to .htaccess but it didnt do anything....do i change the name or something.

 

[leafypiggy]

Try:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_URI}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html

The reason the one you have in your .htaccess doesn't work is because it tells the script to NOT work if the requested file is a file or directory.. this one only does it if the file exists.

 

[tstonly]

I should just have to copy paste it and not change the html page names to without .html right?

 

[tstonly]

When i pasted and tried to submit your code it said in a message
"Could not open /home/tstonly/public_html/.htaccess for writing: Permission denied"

Signed out then signed back in and still didnt work...
Actually its not letting me edit anything at all on that page. When i try to submit it just gives me that error. Every other page works.

Screenshot below

 

[leafypiggy]

Yeah that's my fault. one second.
Should be fine now.

 

[tstonly]

works thank you!!!

 

[motesx10]

How about creating a folder named "submit" and put an "index.html" file in it. This should work... example.com/address/submit

 

[leafypiggy]

How about creating a folder named "submit" and put an "index.html" file in it. This should work... example.com/address/submit

That's not the ideal solution. An htaccess redirect is the fix for this.