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6 .htaccess Rewrites: Remove index.html, Remove .html, Force non-www, Force Trailing Slash
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i've to give some information about my website Environment
1. i have static webpage in the root.
2. Wordpress installed in sub-dictionary www.domain.com/blog/
3. I have two .htaccess , one in the root and one in the wordpress
folder.i want to
- www to non on all URLs
- Remove index.html from url
- Remove all .html extension / Re-direct 301 to url
without .html extension - Add trailing slash to the static webpages / Re-direct 301 from non-trailing slash
- Force trailing slash to the Wordpress Webpages / Re-direct 301 from non-trailing slash
Some examples
domain.tld/index.html >> domain.tld/
domain.tld/file.html >> domain.tld/file/
domain.tld/file.html/ >> domain.tld/file/
domain.tld/wordpress/post-name >> domain.tld/wordpress/post-name/
My code in ROOT htaccess is
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /#removing trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301,L]#www to non
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(([a-z0-9_]+.)?domain.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]#html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]#index redirect
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://domain.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .html
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>The above code do
1. redirect www to non-www
2. Remove trailing slash at the end (if exists)
3. Remove index.html
4. Remove all .html
5. Redirect 301 to filename but doesn't add trailing slash at the end -
#index redirect
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://domain.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .html
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]hi anyone please help I use this code but now getting 404 error. please help.
i also remove this code again but still same issue.
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Hi Tom,
thanks for your reply.
i have some problems
the above code doesn't
1 - Add trailing slash to the static webpages / Re-direct 301 from non-trailing slash
so it should be http://ghadaalsaman.com/articles/ instead of http://ghadaalsaman.com/articles
2 - Force trailing slash to the Wordpress Webpages / Re-direct 301 from non-trailing slash
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Hey NeatIT!
I see you have a working solution there. Did you have a specific question about the setup?
I did notice that your setup cane sometimes result in chaining 301 redirects, which is one area for possible improvement.
Let me know how we can help!
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