Trouble removing .html URL extension using .htaccess

Question

Trying to remove .html extensions from the site using .htaccess. So for example: www.mysite.com/charts.html would become www.mysite.com/charts

The following script is in the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1 [L,R=301]

But when the url without the .html extension is entered in the browser, it shows a 403 Forbidden error. Any help would be appreciated.

Would we have to create a conf file? Looked around and don't see a conf file anywhere in our server files. — RMX, May 20 '12 at 21:25

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '12 at 20:08

7

I found this solution elsewhere:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html

answered May 20 '12 at 20:08

Cosades

I've tried all of the different scripts they had on that website but none seem to work and the 403 error keeps coming up. – RMX May 20 '12 at 20:47
Got it working with this script after removing a folder with the same html file name. Thanks. – RMX May 21 '12 at 00:02
Worked. Thanks! – joshiki Jan 10 '22 at 01:34

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