HELP: How to avoid typing .html?

**Jane Withnolastname** · Jul 20 '05, 03:32 PM

Re: HELP: How to avoid typing .html?

On 21 Aug 2003 09:58:30 -0700, inquisitiveman2 002@yahoo.com wrote:
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>Hello comrades,
>
>I want someone to go directly to a link page by typing the URL without
>having to type the .html
>
>For example, if someone types in a URL that is
>http://www.whatever.com/123.html then he/she will definitely get to
>the page.
>Is it possible to configure just have it where
>someone can just type in http://www.whatever.com/123 and go directly
>to that page w/o the .html
>
>I have seen other sites that can do this,but not sure if it is the www
>authoring software that does this or maybe the WebServer itself.
>Thanks everyone!! BTW, i am using NetOjects Fusion v7.0.[/color]

Make a series of directories with the name of each of your pages, then
make an index.html page for each of the directories. The only content
of the index.html page should be a redirect to the actual page. Using
your example:

1. Make directory 123.
2. Make index.html and put in directory 123
3. Use this code in your <head>:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
URL=http://www.whaever.com/123.html">

This will allow people to access your page by typing 123.html or by
simply typing 123, which will then redirect them to 123.html

Alternately, you could eliminate step three and just have the
index.html file in each directory be the actual page. Both options are
quite tedious. It's a whole lotta work just to relieve people of five
key presses!

**David Dorward** · Jul 20 '05, 03:32 PM

Re: HELP: How to avoid typing .html?

inquisitiveman2 002@yahoo.com wrote:
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> Is it possible to configure just have it where
> someone can just type in http://www.whatever.com/123 and go directly
> to that page w/o the .html[/color]
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> I have seen other sites that can do this,but not sure if it is the www[/color]

Either make it an index file in the directory, or configure your webserver
to do it.

--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

**Randal L. Schwartz** · Jul 20 '05, 03:32 PM

Re: HELP: How to avoid typing .html?

>>>>> "Jane" == Jane Withnolastname <JaneWithnolast nameNOSPAM@yaho o.com> writes:

Jane> 3. Use this code in your <head>:

Jane> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
Jane> URL=http://www.whaever.com/123.html">

Uh, *no*.

Googling back in this news group (groups.google. com) with
"http-equiv-refresh" will give you lots of reasons why this is always
the WRONG thing to do.

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**Shawn K. Quinn** · Jul 20 '05, 03:32 PM

Re: HELP: How to avoid typing .html?

inquisitiveman2 002@yahoo.com wrote:
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> Hello comrades,
>
> I want someone to go directly to a link page by typing the URL without
> having to type the .html
>
> For example, if someone types in a URL that is
> http://www.whatever.com/123.html then he/she will definitely get to
> the page.
> Is it possible to configure just have it where
> someone can just type in http://www.whatever.com/123 and go directly
> to that page w/o the .html[/color]

It's easy enough to do with access to server config. "Options Multiviews" in
Apache will do it.

--
Shawn K. Quinn

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