Redirect all pages with .html to pages without .html

Redirect all requests from pages with .html extension to pages without any extension by means of .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Commentary

Enable runtime rewriting engine:

RewriteEngine On

If request does not match an existing file on the server:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

If request does not match an existing folder on the server:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

Then redirect request from page with .html to page without .html:

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

Links

1. Apache Module mod_rewrite docs: httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
2. Stackoverflow.com: How to remove .html from URL?

Web servers

• Apache

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