---
title: Remove index.html from the URL
date: 2010-02-22T16:29:17+00:00
modified: 2010-02-22T16:29:17+00:00
permalink: https://kaspars.net/blog/remove-index-html-from-the-url
post_type: post
author:
  name: Kaspars
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category:
  - Development
---

# Remove index.html from the URL

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](http://ichomesforsale.com/ "Denise Hamlin, Iowa City Real Estate") which is hosted at Godaddy.