Nginx remove html from url
If you have a static website build using plain html files, your url will look like https://yourdomain/page.html. This .html extension is useful for the files when it is on your local computer, it help computer to associate the file with specific application, say your HTML editor. But on a web server this .html extension serve no purpose. If you are using Nginx web server, you can remove .html extension from your web page urls with following code.
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location / { if ($request_uri ~ ^/(.*)\.html$) { return 301 /$1; } try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/ =404; } |
Remove .php extension
To remove .php extension, you can use
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location / { try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/ @extensionless-php; index index.html index.htm index.php; } location @extensionless-php { rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php last; } |
Reataining Arguments
To retain arguments, use
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return 301 /$1$is_args$args; |
This will redirect /mypage.html?name= to /mypage?name=
Serve PHP file with .html extension
See Nginx