Remove .html from url with .htaccess

Question

Im trying to remove the .html from the url so that www.example.com/page.html would be www.example.com/page. I tried using .htaccess with this code :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

My html code is simply : <a href = "page">link</a>

This didn't work as every time I click on the link, an error page shows up

This Q&A should help. [Remove HTML extension from URL](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5730092/how-to-remove-html-from-url) — lovermanthing, Mar 29 '16 at 22:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '16 at 23:05

I think you want to add and not remove .html (rewrite page to page.html)
You can use:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)/?$ $1.html [L]

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 29 '16 at 22:57

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Something like this should work.

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

answered Mar 29 '16 at 22:57

Josh Stevens

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

I found the answer on - How to remove .html from URL. This was the only .htaccess script that worked:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{http://www.proofers.co.uk/new} !(\.[^./]+)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) /$1.html [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^.]+)\.html\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.html$ http://www.proofers.co.uk/new/$1 [R=301,L]

Remove .html from url with .htaccess

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