HTML pages with no extension

Hi,

How can I create HTML pages with no extension?

Here and there you see addresses like www.example.com/monkey, but how do they avoid the .html at the end (like www.example.com/monkey.html)?

Thanks, Mads

 

This can be done a couple of ways:

1) Mod-Rewrite/.htaccess
2) Create a directory for each page, and upload the default file for your server in each directory (usually index.html/htm/php). So, the actual file may be example.com/monkey/index.html, but it can be accessed at example.com/monkey.

H@H

 

generally www.example.com/monkey is a folder.

 

It can be done with mod_rewrite in your htaccess. You can't be arsed making a lot of folders and index files.

 

yes, making a lot of folders and index files will be a hard work. I wouldn't suggest you to use this method if a lot of pages to be build in this way.

 

What about seo, what will be the best approach in relation to SEO?

I have noticed WordPress doesn't have any extensions. Does anyone know how they implement that?

 

.htaccess only works on Apache and a couple of other webservers but doesnt work on IIS which is the 2nd most common server after Apache. IIS requires changes in the server itself - simple enough to do but not available on most shared hosting.

There is no notable impact on SEO as file extensions in themselves arent factored in

 

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

should work then (haven't tested it yet, I plan to use it on a domain that haven't been redirected to my server yet).

 

putting an index.htm / index.html / index.php in a folder with the name monkey will solve the problem easily.