My pages don't end in any extension, is this ok?

Hi,

I have a wallpaper site, which have all pages do not end in any extensions. For example, my pages look like this:

www.example.com/wallpaper/65355

instead of

www.example.com/someWallpaper.html

One of the biggest troubles I faced in case of this issue, is that my pages always get rejected on "Digg site" submission , And many other problems in addition.

Does it possible to fix this?
thank you

 

One option would be to append the following line in your ".htacess" file..
Be sure to add this line after all rewrite rules automatically specified by your script..

RewriteRule ^wallpaper/(.*)\.html$ wallpaper/$1 [L]

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P.S. --> I'm not so good at mod_rewrite. May be I'm wrong about the code.

 

Looks close enough to get the OP started if it's not correct.

 

So is there any risk, or am I have to do only this solution?

Thank you for help

 

There's no risk with adding the .htaccess rule, but whenever people access that area of your site it will be rewritten from the .html to without it. However, if in the future you have .html files in that directory they will be rewritten also.

So your .htaccess maybe looks like this...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^wallpaper/(.*)\.html$ wallpaper/$1 [L]

 

Just make sure the rewrite is right or you can end up with some strange issues

 

It's correct... I'm getting good at it
Tested it for various inputs at the following link (offers to check RewriteRules)

http://civilolydnad.se/projects/rewriterule/

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You can PM me if some problems arise. I'll be happy to fix them as part of my learning process

EDIT:

RewriteRule ^wallpaper/([0-9]+)\.html$ wallpaper/$1 [L]

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This 1 is better. It eliminates the risk pointed out by Dren.
It'll only rewrite URL's like http://hostname/wallpaper/65535.html --------> http://hostname/wallpaper/65535
and ignore http://hostname/wallpaper/abcdef.html and http://hostname/wallpaper/a12de3.html
So, u'll be able to keep HTML files, as long as their filenames are not "all in numbers"

 

Looks good.

Nice job Azkaban.

 

Thanks, I'll test it and inform you with the result

 

its perfectly correct infact many bloggers even wordpress gives such type of urls

 

I did it but still no change, all the wallpapers extensions still ended with a number

That is my _htaccess after adding the rule:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
#	leave just a normal / (slash) if the script is installed at root level otherwise enter it's folder here ex: /wscript (! no trailing slash)
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|install|scripts|fonts|uploads|robots\.txt|sitemap\.xml|favicon\.ico)

#	if wscript is installed in a subfolder, add it before index.php ex: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wscript/index.php?/$1 [L] otherwise leave it as is
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^wallpaper/([0-9]+)\.html$ wallpaper/$1 [L]

PHP:

 

Try

RewriteRule ^wallpaper/([0-9]+)\.html$ /wallpaper/$1 [L]

 

I did it too..
That is it:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
#   leave just a normal / (slash) if the script is installed at root level otherwise enter it's folder here ex: /wscript (! no trailing slash)
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|install|scripts|fonts|uploads|robots\.txt|sitemap\.xml|favicon\.ico)

#   if wscript is installed in a subfolder, add it before index.php ex: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wscript/index.php?/$1 [L] otherwise leave it as is
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^wallpaper/([0-9]+)\.html$ /wallpaper/$1 [L]

PHP:

And still no good news

 

So, u'll be able to keep HTML files, as long as their filenames are not "all in numbers"

 

So, is it complicated to this extent! there is no solutions!!!

 

Comment out your other code and just work on this one area:

Once you get that to work uncomment your other code line by line to debug. Leave RewriteEngine On.

 

I tried to work with that :

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
#	leave just a normal / (slash) if the script is installed at root level otherwise enter it's folder here ex: /wscript (! no trailing slash)
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|install|scripts|fonts|uploads|robots\.txt|sitemap\.xml|favicon\.ico)

#	if wscript is installed in a subfolder, add it before index.php ex: # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wscript/index.php?/$1 [L] otherwise leave it as is
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^wallpaper/([0-9]+)\.html$ /wallpaper/$1 [L]

PHP:

And even that:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
#	leave just a normal / (slash) if the script is installed at root level otherwise enter it's folder here ex: /wscript (! no trailing slash)
# RewriteBase /
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|install|scripts|fonts|uploads|robots\.txt|sitemap\.xml|favicon\.ico)

#	if wscript is installed in a subfolder, add it before index.php ex: # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wscript/index.php?/$1 [L] otherwise leave it as is
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^wallpaper/([0-9]+)\.html$ /wallpaper/$1 [L]

PHP:

But I just have the same issue, I entered my homepage and opened one of my pics and the link showed like that:

http://Mys site/index.php?/wallpapers[COLOR="Red"]/show/556[/COLOR]

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Which mean, there is no difference.
!!!

 

well originally you said it was

now you're saying it's
[quote ]

http://Mys site/index.php?/wallpapers[COLOR="Red"]/show/556[/COLOR]

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[/quote]
so that's obviously the problem you need to fix your rewrite

 

it needs to have the /wallpaper/show there

 

Sorry.. I didn't know that it was something important.
Could you please tell me if the new appropriate rule would be:

RewriteRule ^wallpapers/show/([0-9]+)\.html$ /wallpapers/show/$1 [L]

Code (markup):

Or something else!!