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-#+title: Apache Redirect HTML Files to a Directory
-#+date: 2021-10-09
-#+description: A guide on redirecting HTML files to directory in Apache.
-#+filetags: :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 ([[https://jekyllrb.com][Jekyll]])
-and prefer my new tool ([[https://www.getzola.org][Zola]]) 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.
-
-#+begin_src conf
-RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\index.html$ [NC]
-RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
-#+end_src
-
-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.