Pages don't show up without ".html" - How to fix?

[Newb1982]

When I type example.com/blog.html, there it is. But when I type example.com/blog, I get an error message. Same thing with all of the pages.

If this is resolved on another thread kindly redirect me. It may be a script thing, idk. Thank you!

[DrDOS]

Only the index or default pages show up that way. So if you have a link that says

http://www.mysite.com/blog

and the page show up it's an index page in a folder named blog. There is a caveat, the server may be set to add .html to all requests.

[dkaufman11]

I'm not an expert in this, but it is my understanding that in the directory, example.com/blog there is a file the kicks the site off. I always thought that file had to be named index.html. I have heard it could be called something else, but your web-hosting company should have some documentation on that.

[Newb1982]

Thank you very much!

[VIPStephan]

Originally Posted by Newb1982

I get an error message.

What does the error message say? Error 404 or error 500? Error 500 means that you’re probably trying to do the right thing but made a mistake somewhere. Error 404 means that you probably don’t know what you’re doing or have to do to achieve what you want.

What you are looking for is called a “search engine friendly URL”, a. k. a. “pretty URL” which can be achieved by changing the server configuration or, if that’s not an option, by adding an .htaccess file to your server’s/web space’s root directory with some respective rules in it.

You’ve got the keywords now (“pretty URL”, “htaccess”), now do your homework.

[LWsep10]

Thank you for your suggestions. I will look around and check with my server. It is probably documented somewhere