.htaccess redirect traffic hitting .html links to TLD homepage

Question

I'm helping a client migrate an old site which used .html extension at the end of the web address to a properly named URL structure. I want to do a redirect for all URLs that end in .html to the homepage.

I tried this but it didn't work:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1http://domain.org [NC]

is the file on the same domain (domain.org)? – Book Of Zeus Feb 29 '12 at 00:52 — Book Of Zeus, Feb 29 '12 at 00:52

Book Of Zeus · Answer 1 · 2012-02-29T23:09:49.753

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You can use sometihing like this:

  RewriteEngine On 
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ([^/]+)\.html$ index.php?page=$1 [L,NC]

or for permanent redirect

  RewriteEngine On 
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule (.*)\.html$ / [R=301,NC,L]

edited Feb 29 '12 at 23:09

answered Feb 29 '12 at 01:35

Book Of Zeus

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I would add also a case for home page – EscoMaji Feb 29 '12 at 13:15

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 29 '12 at 09:48

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Something like this should fit you needs:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*)\.html$ / [QSA,R=301,NC,L]

answered Feb 29 '12 at 09:48

Olivier Pons

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 29 '12 at 09:54

Your question is not very clear but just based on your code I think this will work for you:

RewriteRule \.html$ http://domain.org/? [R,L,NC]

This will redirect every URL ending with .html to http://domain.org/ even stripping out any query parameter in the original URI.

.htaccess redirect traffic hitting .html links to TLD homepage

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