[support] Getting rid of ".html" suffix in URL?

[Brian Choc]

Further, the pathauto module should allow you to maintain a consistent 
".html" naming scheme across nodes, should you go this route.

Brian



Metzler, David wrote:
> Aonther idea - use the path module to create an alias to car.html to
> point to the node/path that you need IT won't do it for all, but it
> should get you out of your current jam. 
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Craig Jackson
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:01 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] Getting rid of ".html" suffix in URL?
>
> Apache???
> Do not place this into a live site, I have not tested it. I am just
> thinking out loud, but what about something like this?
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1
>
> Craig Jackson
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>   
>> I gave a URL for a page on my site (http://hyc.org/directions/car) to
>>  somebody to publish in their newsletter.  They apparently decided
>>     
> they
>   
>>  knew better, and "corrected" the URL to have a ".html" on the end,
>>  i.e. published "http://hyc.org/directions/car.html".  Now they call
>>     
> me
>   
>>  up saying their members can't get to our web site.
>>
>>  Is there any way to make drupal treat the .html URL as an alias for
>>  the correct one?  More generally, is there a way to make it do so for
>>  *all* URLs that end in .html?
>>
>>  --
>>  roy at panix.com
>>
>>  --
>>  [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
>>
>>     


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