Automatically adding .html to urls (.htaccess)

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December 13th, 2007, 05:48 AM

MrMiguel

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Automatically adding .html to urls (.htaccess)

I would like to have the urls visitors enter with are automatically adjusted (via .htaccess) such that if a visitor (or search engine bot) enters my website at any url of this type:

http://www.mywebsite.com/page
http://www.mywebsite.com/page.htm
www.mywebsite.com/page
www.mywebsite.com/page.htm
mywebsite.com/page
of mywebsite.com/page.htm

that they then automatically get send to: http://www.mywebsite.com/page.html. This should also hold for all other pages of my website, EXCEPT for the homepage;

http://www.mywebsite.com
http://www.mywebsite.com/index
http://www.mywebsite.com/index.htm
http://www.mywebsite.com/index.html

should all automatically be changed into:

http://www.mywebsite.com

Currently my .htaccess-file looks like this:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mywebsite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Such that adding the "http://www." part is currently already working.

What should I add now such that the ".html"-part is automatically added as well and such that the above mentioned exceptions for the homepage work?

Thanks A LOT in advance for your help here!!

Last edited by pro_seo : December 13th, 2007 at 06:12 AM. Reason: Fixed the code tag!

December 13th, 2007, 11:36 AM

lordspace

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Try this one:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php



/*

 For requests without an extension e.g. 'http://domain.com/index' automatically redirect (301) to an existing file with 

 extension specified by $ext variable.

 

 author: Svetoslav Marinov aka Lordspace

 License: LGPL

 (c) 2007

*/



$req = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

$ext = '.htm';



// if the requested file does not contain an extension and is a file then add .html extenstion and make redirect.

if (preg_match('#(.*/[^\.]+)$#', $req, $matches)) {

    

    // Just in case.

    $matches[1] = str_replace('..', '', $matches[1]);

    

    // add '.' to search the file from the current folder

    $location = '.' . $matches[1] . $ext;

    

    if (is_file($location)) {

        header((php_sapi_name() == 'cgi' ? 'Status:' : 'HTTP/1.1') . ' 301 Moved Permanently'); 

        header('Location: ' . $location);

        exit;

    }

}

 

?>

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMiguel

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mywebsite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

December 13th, 2007, 11:40 AM

MrMiguel

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Thanks for your reply! But is there maybe also an alternative via the .htaccess-file...?

January 17th, 2008, 09:38 AM

forge

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Automatically adding .html to urls (.htaccess)

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMiguel

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mywebsite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Hi

You are most of the way there. If you are not linking to an external site then you are rewriting URLs relative to your document root. Here is what you need instead of the above which looks like some sort of permanent redirect.

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) /page.html
RewriteRule index.html /

The first rule says anything goes to page.html and the second overrides it for index.html

If you need it to be recursive throughout sub-folders you'll need to add the RewriteCondition above however I find it better if it starts with something. Example:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule digital-camera-brands-(.*).htm /page.php?brand=$1

So for example the page digital-camera-brands-Kodac.htm would be taken from page.php?brand=Kodak

Thus you could have all your brands in a database and generate SE friendly urls for dragging them out. Moreover you can generate a complete page by adding a brand name to the database.

Hope that helps :-)

Last edited by forge : January 17th, 2008 at 09:42 AM.

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