Semantic URLs for static HTML files with .htaccess and mod_rewrite

.htaccess mod-rewrite clean-urls
Alistair Holt picture Alistair Holt · May 14, 2010 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

mod_rewrite always baffles me... can anyone tell me the rules I need to get the following clean URLs? Desired URL on the left, real URL on the right.

/our-work/ => /our-work.html
/our-work/some-project/ => /our-work/some-project.html
/contact/ => /contact.html

As you can see, I want to force trailing slashes on all URLs too.

Thanks!

Answer

Gumbo picture Gumbo · May 14, 2010

Try this rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ $1.html [L]

And for adding trailing slashes:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .*[^/]$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]

Make sure to put those rules that cause an external redirect (explicitly using R flag or implicitly) in front of those rules that just cause an internal redirect/rewrite. So in this case:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .*[^/]$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ $1.html [L]

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