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-date = 2021-10-09
-title = "Apache Redirect HTML Files to a Directory"
-description = "A guide on redirecting HTML files to directory in Apache."
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-
-## The Problem
-
-After recently switching static site generators (SSG), my blog URLs
-changed with no option to preserve the classic `.html`
-extension at the end of my blog post URLs.
-
-I really disliked using my old SSG ([Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com)) and
-prefer my new tool ([Zola](https://www.getzola.org)) much more, so I was
-determined to figure out a way to get the proper redirect set up so that
-people who find my posts online aren't constantly met by 404 errors.
-
-## The Solution
-
-To solve this problem, I really needed to solve two pieces:
-
-1. Redirect all blog post URL requests from
- `/blog/some-post.html` to `/blog/some-post/`.
-2. Ensure that no other `.html` files are redirected, such
- as `index.html`.
-
-After *a lot* of tweaking and testing, I believe I have finally found
-the solution. The solution is shown below.
-
-```conf
-RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\index.html$ [NC]
-RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
-```
-
-This piece of code in the Apache `.conf` or
-`.htaccess` file will do the following:
-
-1. Turn on the RewriteEngine so that we can modify URLs.
-2. Ignore any `index.html` files from the rule we are about
- to specify.
-3. Find any `.html` files within the website directory and
- redirect it to exclude the file extension.
-4. The final piece is adding the trailing slash (`/`) at the
- end of the URL - you'll notice that I don't have an Apache rule
- for that since Apache handles that automatically.