: .htacess - Remove .html from the homepage but not from folders within within that website I'm trying to remove the .html from my landing page, an example would be instead of domain.com/contact.html

@Ravi8258870

#301 from example.com/page.html to example.com/page
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9} /.*.html HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ / [R=301,L]



Let's focus on this one, as the one you want to change. Firstly I would say the THE_REQUEST is just adding complication. I guess its purpose is to 'stop' the rule adding the html back, removed during the first 'internal' redirect.

... I would suggest that it's much better just to 'fix' that by putting the URL first. ie. have the 301 removing the extension FIRST. (It has L in it anyway.) Then have the internal redirect.

Then it seems you just need

RewriteRule ^([^/]+).html$ / [R=301,L]


[^/] means match anything except a slash. So then paths with a slash in them (eg folders!) won't match.

You may also want to consider adding:

RewriteBase /


to the beginning of the file to make sure that relative paths work. ie that the rewrite rule isn't matching a path that already has slashes at start.

Alternatively use:

RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+).html$ / [R=301,L]

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@Nimeshi995

Never mind, I found the solution:

DirectorySlash Off
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} s/+(.*?/)?(?:index)?(.*?).html[s?/] [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.[^/]*)$ /%1%2 [R=302,L,NE]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /.html [L]

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