Remove .html from URLs with a redirect

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We have a website, unfortunately all the URLs have the `.html` suffix, its a Magento installation, Magento allows you to change this on the CMS, but again, unfortunately all this URLs with `.html` suffix have a good ranking in Google. We need to redirect to non `.html`. So, consider the following scenario, we are rebuilding this site from scratch, so we have the same urls on the new site but without the .html suffix. - Now is: `www.example.de/cool-shoes.html` - Will be: `www.example.de/cool-shoes` So `www.example.de/cool-shoes.html` will not exist anymore, and I've been trying a redirect with the .htaccess with no luck. I've tried so far: ``` RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*\.html\ HTTP/ RewriteRule (.*)index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L] ``` and: ``` RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html ``` but it doesn't seem to work...any ideas?

Accepted Answer

Ok so, after some research, and failing to achieve this with a rewrite rule, the following line of code worked:

```
redirectMatch 301 ^(.*)\.html $1
```

This is quite usefull to remove any url extension and avoid broken links, hopefully helps someone in the future...

cheers!

Remove .html from URLs with a redirect

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