Remove .html Extension From Every Url

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi there,

This should be easy with .htaccess but for some reason I am struggling.

I want for example that:

http:://mywebsite/site/contact.html

always redirect to

http:://mywebsite/site/contact

My URL manager config is




'urlManager' => array(

            'urlFormat' => 'path',            

            'showScriptName' => false,

                ),

I am playing with my .htaccess the closest I got to something is




RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html$

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [R=301,L]

But I get a funny result (at least it did remove the html…):




http://localhost:80/C:/xampp/htdocs/mywebsite/site/contact

Anyway I think there is something Yii specific that is causing a problem.

Any idea?

Thanks

Renaud

2

Hi,

You may use like,




RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

Thanks

3

Thank you for your suggestion Ghanshyam, I tried that but I get:




The system is unable to find the requested action "contact.html".
4

Anybody? I still cannot find a solution, this seems to be a trivial thing though…

5

Yii will not serve your static files its complaining about action not found if you trying to fake .html in your actions use the suffix property of urlmanager


'urlManager' => array(

            'urlFormat' => 'path',            

            'showScriptName' => false,

            'urlSuffix'=>'.html'

),
6

Thanks alirz23, but this is not what I am trying to do. This above will add .html to all my URLs inside the website.

I want that all my actions/link to have no .html in the URL. But if the user by mistake adds .html it is still understood, and the URL is stripped from the .html.

7

Any url rewrite specialist?