[Solved] make url shorter .htaccess

[coffeendonut]

i want to know if is it possible to hide the file extension example if i have

http://mysite.com/thisnew.html rewrite it to http://mysite.com/thisnew

another example

https://css-tricks.com/forums/categories/css

i use the following .htaccess code

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^mynew/$ /mynew.html [L]

RewriteRule ^most/$ /most.php [L]

is there a way on making this hide all the html extension and not having to include all the page’s on the htaccess file .?

[Chris Coyier]

They are folders with index inside them.

Ex.

http://mysite.com/thisnew/index.html = http://mysite.com/thisnew

http://mysite.com/most/index.php = http://mysite.com/most

[coffeendonut]

@CWDESIGN some are index but others ain’t as the example above http://www.mysite.com/mynew.html/ becomes http://www.mysite.com/mynew/ an is not an index on a folder im trying basically to remove every .html to just the name without having to write every page on the .htaccess file…

[coffeendonut]

@dclardy thats good i have tried that but i need to remove every .html and .php extension and not having to name it something else… basically no file extensions…

[Chris Coyier]

What you’re trying to do just doesn’t make sense to me. What I think I understand is that you want to remove the “.html” and “.php”.

[coffeendonut]

@CWDESIGN yes… the .html and the .php extension…

[Chris Coyier]

Well, the only way I know how to remove the .html and .php extensions is to create a folder and put index.html or index.php inside of that folder. Adding a folder and naming the file index will make it so your page will look like this mysite.com/thisnew without showing the .html or .php extension.

[coffeendonut]

@CWDESIGN yeah thats the original way that works… cause thats the index of the folder but im not trying to make multiple folders just for a page… thats where the .htaccess come’s in handy the .htaccess file above renames the the file to which ever name you want like RewriteRule ^most/$ /most.php [L] the url will be http://www.mysite.com/most/ without having to make or name a folder and put and index on it…

[Chris Coyier]

I SEE! I was confused as to what you were trying to do. Now that makes sense.

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