Remove ".html" from the URL via .htaccess for the WordPress website.

Question

Background Information:

I was looking for stackoverflow for a specific solution and could not find the one that fixed my situation. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Your knowledge is appreciated.

I decided to accept the contract for the "conversion" (in the words of the client) of the Joomla website to the WordPress website. Everything goes smoothly, except that the Joomla site refers to .html files, both in its navigation and in the content of more than 100 posts.

Instead of going through each message in turn and updating links or running the SQL command to remove ".html" from the URLs, I decided to put pressure on .htaccess, which I'm somewhat comfortable with.

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What am I trying to do & darr;

In WordPress, I have custom permalinks, and it looks like this: /% Category% /% postname%

Here is an example of what one of the old URLs looks like in posts:

http://the-site.com/category/the-webpage.html 

I need a htaccess file to tell the web server to remove the .html so that the user after visiting http://the-site.com/the-webpage.html "is sent instead:

 http://the-site.com/category/the-webpage 

I set up page stubs to keep track of the file name on Joomla pages, so http://the-site.com/category/the-webpage will work.

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My question is:

Can you help me find a solution to remove .html from the url when someone visits the site, even if the HTML file does not exist on the server?

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This is what the .htaccess file looked like before I made the changes:

 # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress 

Here's the last .htaccess file from 5:35 p.m. according to the eastern explanation:

 # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html$ RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress 

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The last .htaccess changes the work. Thanks Tim!

Answer 1

This will work to redirect the external redirect to your new URLs, but this may not be ideal for your situation. I'm still trying to think if there is a way to preserve the internal redirection and update the variable that WordPress uses to determine which page will be served, but so far I have not thought about anything that would work.

Whole .htaccess :

 RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html$ RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] 

Answer 2

Do you want to use URL rewriting

 RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 

Answer 3

That should do it. He will rewrite the request to site.com/category/whatever.html to site.com/category/whatever. It should not depend on the requested file.

  <Directory /var/www/category> RewriteEngine on RewriteRule (.*)\.html$ /category/$1 </Directory> 

This is the format for apache2.conf or virtual host files. Not sure if you are using the command in .htaccess. It is best to take care of this in the conf server, if possible, since it is only parsed once at server startup, and htaccess is analyzed for each request.