How do you hide URL extensions using Microsoft URL Rewrite Module?

Question

Example would be:
mysite.com/page.html > mysite.com/page

Answer 1

For which web server? For Apache, see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html



For IIS see http://www.isapirewrite.com/

Answer 2

WHy not use a service like noip or tinyurl both of them can be used to change what the browser sees as the url before you click it.

Answer 3

I'm using IIS and installed rewrite filter - ISAPI_Rewrite.

Here is how it works http://www.helicontech.com/forum/forum_posts-TID-10648.htm - simple FAQ that allows to start.



The rule in your case is:



RewriteEngine on

#Redirect extension requests to avoid duplicate content

RewriteRule ^([^?]+)\.html$ $1 [NC,R=301,L]

#Internally add extensions to request

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f

RewriteRule (.*) $1.html