Having clean URLs throughout

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I am creating a website and cannot figure out how to set clean URLs throughout all my webpages. Is there a way to do this without .htaccess? If no how can I accomplish with it? I'm using Apache.

This is an example of what I have now, which I do not want:

www.example.com/about.html

This is what I want the URL to look like:

www.example.com/about/

Possible duplicate of [Removing the .php extension with mod\_rewrite](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4908122/removing-the-php-extension-with-mod-rewrite) — Tengku Fathullah, Dec 11 '16 at 16:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '16 at 17:00

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For .html you can code below, it will rewrite request when you .html is enter in url.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule !.*\.html$ %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html [L]

answered Dec 11 '16 at 17:00

Tengku Fathullah

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Hello Tengku. Could you explain how the code works and where to place it. Thanks :) – Dec 11 '16 at 21:48
should be in `httpd.conf`, check this doc. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html – Tengku Fathullah Dec 13 '16 at 03:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '16 at 13:01

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Unless your Apache is configured differently, the file /about/index.html will be returned under the URL /about/.

By default, Apache looks for a file named index.html, but this can be changed with the DirectoryIndex directive.

answered Dec 12 '16 at 13:01

unor

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Rodrigo Friozi · Answer 3 · 2016-12-12T18:17:59.520

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You must create the file .htaccess in your server and add this code in it:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule !.*\.html$ %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html [L]

edited Dec 12 '16 at 18:17

answered Dec 12 '16 at 18:12

Rodrigo Friozi

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Having clean URLs throughout

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