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Remove index.html from the URL

February 22, 2010 Development 4 Comments

Some servers seem to automatically append index.html to all HTTP requests, which you can remove by placing this at the beginning of .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On # remove this, if you have it already

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index\.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

I used this technique for a site that I built — ichomesforsale.com which is hosted at Godaddy.

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4 Comments

  1. `rolandinsh` says:
    February 22, 2010 at 18:52

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/index.html\ HTTP [NC]
    RewriteRule (.*)index.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

    works with RewriteEngine On

    Somehow Your version on my GoDaddy hosting caused Error 500 :|
    This was fast work-around

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  2. Kaspars says:
    February 22, 2010 at 19:01

    rolandinsh, I think this (.*)index.html$ should cause an error because there is an unescaped . in index.html.

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  3. `rolandinsh` says:
    February 22, 2010 at 19:21

    Kaspars, If about my version, that is just fast-typing typo :) (thanks for cleaning) My mistake! Of course need to escape dots

    OK, by cleaning-up made small “upgrade” too:
    for both .html and .php :)
    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/index\.(php|html)\ HTTP [NC]
    RewriteRule (.*)index\.(php|html)$ /$1 [R=301,L]

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  4. Kaspars says:
    February 22, 2010 at 19:45

    rolandinsh, this looks good.

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