How to remove .html in URL

[cordphillips]

Hello-

I was wondering if there was a way to remove the .html in the URL bar.  I am NOT using BC to host the site.

The hope is to go from www.yoursite.com/name.html  --to-->  www.yoursite.com/name

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

-Cord

[Vinayak_Gupta]

Muse doesn't provide this ability today to remove .html from page URL's. Please feel free to submit a vote to this idea - http://forums.adobe.com/ideas/2010

Thanks,

Vinayak

[Myshowbro]

Why do we have to vote this to be a feature. it should Already be included its 2015 come on guys! Get with the Program. RND Innovate And move Forward. 

[GorgeousGirl]

Exactly! Is there still no solution to this problem? Makes sites look particularly unpleasant to look at in the url area

[sebrame]

The answer was given in response #2. This is not done within Muse, and basically cannot be done in Muse unless Muse starts writing .htaccess files beyond their own redirects. I doubt that they ever would give it such capability.

The .htaccess file is a text file located in the root of your web server, accessible with an FTP client such as Filezilla, and editable with a basic text editor. If there isn't a .htaccess file present, then you can easily create one and upload it to the root of the server.

Keep in mind that this only works on an Apache server.

[sebrame · Accepted solution]

Here's a great tutorial on the subject...

http://alexcican.com/post/how-to-remove-php-html-htm-extensions-with-htaccess/

[niyatip35690995]

I tried the instructions on this blog and it didn't work for me. I was trying to remove the .html extension.

What I did was..

went into the .htaccess file and copy pasted the code from the blog and re uploaded the file using FileZilla.

And nothing happened.

Can someone please help!

[Felix006]

To be fair, the software already writes and saves CSS and JS pages that are basically just text files with other extensions. It's not a stretch to have the software write additional files. ESPECIALLY if they're also just text files saved with just the .htaccess extension added. In fact, it'd be an amazing developer tool to have any kind of masking be a feature in the page settings or somewhere. I've got a client right now who would love me to be able to mask the domain of my single page with the domain his site is linking from while we wait for the grant money to rebuild his whole site from scratch. He's got most of it on WordPress and even that is using a domain mask to his official domain with a WordPress feature.

[33043]

Okay, it's been 4 years, and there are 72 requests for this feature. Is there a chance it will happen or can you provide a workaround that's easy to follow? This ability to remove the .html is necessary for those of us who are rebuilding existing websites and want to retain any SEO juice accumulated from the existing pages. Changing their exact names is an SEO no no. Please advise! Thank you!

[thiniced]

Has there been any forward movement from the Adobe Muse team about this issue? I need an easy solution that doesn't require hand writing code and can't find one. Would love to hear if anyone has figured one out.

[francescofbbr]

You can edit the .htaccess file on your web server.

Check this out:

http://css-tricks.com/snippets/htaccess/remove-file-extention-from-urls/

[cordphillips]

This looks perfect!  I'm a novice when it comes to actual development though.... I can't find a file labeled .htaccess anywhere.  I have found an access logs folder where I see two files that I can't seem to edit.  Any way you can help me connect the dots?

Thanks!

[martinwinx]

To me, this worked.

Copy the exact text below in your .htaccess file:

## Go Daddy servers need the Options -MultiViews code below

Options -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

# Hide .html extension

## External Redirect

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.html [NC]

RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,NC]

## ## Internal Redirect

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f

RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.html

[martinwinx]

I copied this whole text (also if i do not use Go Daddy) and it worked

[contessaa63367769]

Martinwinx, thank you so much for making this easy!  One question...in Godaddy....where the heck is the .htaccess file?

[contessaa63367769]

martinwinx​  you are a genius!!!!!!!!  I had to get out of my file manager cause I clicked around too much and tada!  there was the .htaccess file, put in your genius and wala!  I am doing the happy dance!!  martinwinx​ for pres

[martinwinx]

No problem I am glad I helped you 😃

[contessaa63367769]

grrrrrrrr!!!!  It stopped working!  i went to see my .htaccess file and there are 2, an old and a backup?  I didn't add another .htaccess.  Do you by any chance know how to fix this?