Question
Is there a way to remove the need to add ".html" file in the static site?
- Posted on November 8, 2020
- QuickstartDigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by webmasterDolphin
With static sites, it is very common to add files in “.html” format and need to add that in the url (like in the demo code of https://html.sammy-codes.com/about.html).
However, is there a way to have functional urls without the .html part in the url (eg. https://html.sammy-codes.com/about)?
Typically this can be done by adding and modifying .htaccess file in the server - https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-remove-html-extension-from-url-of-a-static-page/.
However, I was not able to get how to do it via App Platform.
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Hello @webmasterDolphin
Currently, App Platform doesn’t handle this type of routing. We have a similar discussion in our another community link below which might help:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/nextjs-export-redirect-path-without-extension-to-path-with-html?answer=65145
Cheers,
Dikshith