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diff --git a/content/blog/2021-10-09-apache-redirect.md b/content/blog/2021-10-09-apache-redirect.md deleted file mode 100644 index e66f5b3..0000000 --- a/content/blog/2021-10-09-apache-redirect.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -+++ -date = 2021-10-09 -title = "Apache Redirect HTML Files to a Directory" -description = "A guide on redirecting HTML files to directory in Apache." -+++ - -## 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. |