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#38961 Is there a way to redirect .html urls to the SEF equvelent?

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Joomla! version

3.10.0

PHP version

7.4.33

Admin Tools version

6.1.9

Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 09 May 2023 05:11 CDT

Monday, 08 May 2023 19:21 CDT

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I have a lot of SEO errors where URLS with .html extensions are creating a 404 error, because some time ago we changed our page URLs to not use .html extensions.

Is there are way to dfo a blank rule in Admin tools to redirect urls that contain .html to their equivelenet? We have a several hundred URLs to redirect, so doing them manually isn't really an option.

For instance, this page

https://www.ovations.com.au/speakers/anh-do.html

needs to redirect to

https://www.ovations.com.au/speakers/anh-do

It's worth mentioning that in teh Joomla SEO settings we have SEF URL's swuitched on, and we use URL rewriting. Adding Suffix to URL is switched off.

Tuesday, 09 May 2023 01:29 CDT

nicholas

You are thinking about this the wrong way. You just need a trivial .htaccess rule:

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

If you are using the .htaccess Maker add this to the rules to add at the top of the file (as it needs to run before the standard SEF URL redirection).

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Tuesday, 09 May 2023 03:08 CDT

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Amazing! Thank you.
Worked perfectly!

Tuesday, 09 May 2023 05:11 CDT