Create Pretty Url from Plain Html Page?
I Have Looked over Several Articles on Setting up "Pretty Url's" and I Can't Seem to Get Anything to Work for Me. I Am New to the Whole. Htaccess Process and...
I have looked over several articles on setting up "Pretty URL's" and I can't seem to get anything to work for me. I am new to the whole .htaccess process and it seems like everything I've seen is geared toward dynamic, .PHP based sites. Here is what I would like to see happen:
Ugly URL:
Pretty URL:
What it am currently trying to use in the .htaccess file is:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)$ $1.html
Thus far, I've had no luck. I am not using any form of .php on the page - these are static .html pages. Any help would be extremely appreciated. Thanks!
1 Answer
Nevermind. I figured out what issue was. My compiler was corrupting the .htaccess file, which was triggering the site-wide error message on load. You can see that it's working now here:
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Here's the basic code that I used:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html
Thanks for all of your help. Cheers!
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