: Clean urls and differences in hosts I am developing a relatively static website, where I want to be able to access each page without typing .html (or .htm or .xhtml ...) at the end (/about

@Ann8826881

You need to add the following line into your .htaccess file(s):

Options +MultiViews



The effect of MultiViews is as
follows: if the server receives a
request for /some/dir/foo, if
/some/dir has MultiViews enabled,
and /some/dir/foo does not exist,
then the server reads the directory
looking for files named foo.*, and
effectively fakes up a type map which
names all those files, assigning them
the same media types and
content-encodings it would have if the
client had asked for one of them by
name. It then chooses the best match
to the client's requirements.


See these links for details:

httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#options http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/content-negotiation.html#negotiation (scroll a bit until you see Multiviews header)




UPDATE:

If you need to go with mod_rewrite then use this rule -- it will attempt to rewrite all extensionless URLs to the same but with .html. There will be no need of specifying individual rules for each of such URLs:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# add .html file extension
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ .html [L,QSA]


P.S. You may need to add a lash / before -- depends on your Apache config.

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