Ok, maybe a pretty dumb question but I can't find an answer on Google.
I am coding my site by hand. How do I make the index.html disappear from the url's? Do I use a piece of code in my html? Do I have to change my href's in my files?
Hope you guys can help!
EDIT: I've tried this with a .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^[.*]/index\.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
It does work, but all my links aren't working anymore. I discovered I had to remove all the index.html from the href's in my documents. But that would be a lot of work. Is there an other code for .htaccess that just hides index.html?
asked Mar 18, 2014 at 13:34
David HakkertDavid Hakkert
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A SIMPLE WAY TO DO THIS in Html:
[example in my case is a simple dual language site]
If your link looks like this:
Homepage
You should change it to this:
Homepage
If trying to link to another folder in your directory, like is my example:
English language
You should change it to this:
English language
Notice that "/" goes back to your root directory and automatically selects index.html, so that is why I used "en" for the English language site, because the name of the folder in that case is "en". You should also make sure that you have index.html in your English language folder, and not index-en.html.
answered Jan 29, 2015 at 18:16
should be replaced with:
Hope this helps!
if you dont find .htaccess, you just need to create a new file using your text editor the same way you would any other html or css file, but save it as simply '.htaccess'
And save it into the root directory, so the same folder that you have your index.html file.
answered Mar 22, 2019 at 8:03
I think this is configured in IIS when you deploy the site, I'm not to sure on it but I'm sure you can specify a start point that your URL will use when you just enter the UL, that implies the Index.html page.
Sorry I'm not too helpful here, hopefully it will point you in the right direction.
Often these things such as Apache or IIS have this set up already, and it looks for the Index.html
, Index.php
first when you just put your URL in.
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answered Mar 18, 2014 at 13:39
Joe HarperJoe Harper
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Great SEO idea! This is similar to nginx redirect loop, remove index.php from url and Apache .htaccess to hide both .php
and .html extentions, as well as mod_rewrite not working htaccess — the idea here, for both Apache's mod_rewrite and nginx ngx_http_rewrite, depends on the differences between the external and internal URLs — in order for the redirect from /index.html
to /
work, yet not cause redirect loops when actually
serving index.html
, you gotta make sure you only issue the redirect for external index.html
requests, but never for internal ones; this can only be accomplished by looking into the actual request_uri
.
Here's the code for nginx ngx_mod_rewrite:
index index.html index.txt;
if [$request_uri ~ "^[.*/]index\.[html|txt]$"] { return 301 $1; }
On Apache's mod_rewrite, it'll be something like the following:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/index\.html$
RewriteRule ^[.*/]index.html$ $1 [R,L]
Related:
- nginx redirect loop, remove index.php from url
- Apache .htaccess to hide both .php and .html extentions
- mod_rewrite not working htaccess
References:
- //nginx.org/r/index
- //nginx.org/r/if
- //httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteCond
answered Dec 18, 2019 at 20:45
cnstcnst
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Change the link that goes to your homepage to the website address. You may have:
Link Here
Change that to:
Link
Or try this
answered Mar 18, 2014 at 13:38
LINK NAME , but will appear on your website as "LINK NAME" with the URL hidden.