: "Friendly URLs" rule in .htaccess interfering with some directories My .htaccess is set up to remove .html from URLs as follows: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{http_host} ^example.com [NC] RewriteRule

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Posted in: #CleanUrls #Htaccess #Redirects #UrlRewriting

My .htaccess is set up to remove .html from URLs as follows:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.example.com/ [R=301,NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ .html [NC,L]


This is causing problems with the file /help.html, which now gives a 403 Forbidden error:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /help/.html on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while
trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


Is there a way to keep friendly URLs and make the help page work?

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