[Resolved] How to remove .html off the request url?

[Cruisey]

Since upgraded from vb4 to vb5, most users has an old url with a .html at the end. I need to remove that before it called the routing.php. How to achieve this? I tried to add this in the .htaccess file:

    # Main Redirect
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|css)$
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f # This is what I've added
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?routestring=$1 [L,QSA]

Restarting apache does nothing. The issue is, the page redirects when I added the .html. I need it not to redirect.

[Wayne Luke]

If you don't want it to redirect, you shouldn't at a redirect rule to do that.

You should be able to access existing pages in the same directory as index.php just using their name. So if you add a file named file.html to the directory, it will still load. In other words, you shouldn't have to make any changes to the .htaccess file to access *.html files in the same directory as vBulletin.

If you really want to bypass the redirect, you need to edit this line:

 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|css)$

So it looks like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|css|html)$

[m-d-luffy]

Since upgraded from vb4 to vb4, most users has an old url with a .html at the end. I need to remove that before it called the routing.php. How to achieve this? I tried to add this in the .htaccess file:

# Main Redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|css)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f # This is what I've added
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?routestring=$1 [L,QSA]

Restarting apache does nothing. The issue is, the page redirects when I added the .html. I need it not to redirect.

What is the format of your current or old links?

How do you want to be new links?

[Cruisey]

If you don't want it to redirect, you shouldn't at a redirect rule to do that.

You should be able to access existing pages in the same directory as index.php just using their name. So if you add a file named file.html to the directory, it will still load. In other words, you shouldn't have to make any changes to the .htaccess file to access *.html files in the same directory as vBulletin.

If you really want to bypass the redirect, you need to edit this line:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|css)$

So it looks like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|css|html)$

Thanks!

[Cruisey]

What is the format of your current or old links?

How do you want to be new links?

Some just has the .html attached to it. We used to use vbseo

[m-d-luffy]

Some just has the .html attached to it. We used to use vbseo

What version are you currently using?

[Cruisey]

What version are you currently using?

5.4.3. Ive managed to resolve the issue inside the routing.php

[m-d-luffy]

5.4.3. Ive managed to resolve the issue inside the routing.php

I use this code to convert old links to vbseo :
RewriteRule ^t(.*)/$ https://sa-ar.anime-toons.tv/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^f(.*)/$ https://sa-ar.anime-toons.tv/forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L,R=301]