Simple HTML - URL rewrite without .html

[KuJaX]

My friend has a website of which he wants a simple URL on a brochure. Instead of <domain>.com/rentals.html he wants the brochure to say <domain>.com/Rentals

So if someone types in the address bar <domain>.com/Rentals it will take them to the rentals.html page.

I assume this is within .HTACCESS with mod_rewrite? Any help?

 

[GaryS128]

A redirection can be defined in the .htaccess
I hope this is the right command...

Redirect /Rentals http://www.<domain>.com/rentals.html

or

You can create an index.html under the "Rentals" directory. So when a user goes to "<domain>.com/Rentals" they are really viewing "<domain>.com/Rentals/index.html"

 

[GJSNeptune]

You can create an index.html under the "Rentals" directory. So when a user goes to "<domain>.com/Rentals" they are really viewing "<domain>.com/Rentals/index.html"

I recommend this. Any web directory with an .index file will act like its own page without displaying a longer URL.

Just be careful with internal linking. You'll have to specify which directory as well.

 

[deFektive]

If you or your friend plan to have several files rewritten to directories, you could do something like this in the .htaccess:

RewriteCond URL (?!/css).*
RewriteCond URL (?!/images).*
RewriteRule /(.*) /$1.html [I,L]

My syntax may be a little off, but essentially that should take any requesed name at the root directory and rewrite it to a file with the same name and a .html extension. The RewriteCond statements should restrict the .htaccess from attempting to rewrite common folders such as images. You would just need to add a condition for each folder to exclude.

 

[Oblivion|MC]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^movie/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+) /movie.php?name=$1

You can also limit the character input using regexp. It ignore anything that isn't a letter a number of _
It take the url
domain.com/movie/The_Ring

and access domain.com/movie.php?name=The_Ring

 

[doh]

Look at mod_negotiation.