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Posted by Preben Finnøy Olafsen
Preben Finnøy Olafsen
3,459 Points

.html on end of my url. Help?

For example... Xxx.info.html

It only appears after you have entered the website and pressed a link or similar. Then it comes back as "xxx.info/me.html" instead of just "Info/me"

2 Answers

Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,847 Points

To clarify on the answer given above, what you're seeing is quite normal, but understandably not ideal by modern web standards.

To remedy the problem, you have to change the file structure of your website to include subdirectories for all the pages you'd like to have. Within each subdirectory is a file named index.html that contains the HTML code of the page as you'd like it rendered.

So, if you'd like www,exampledomain.com/about/, you create a directory in your site's root directory (often public_html) named "about". Within that new directory, create a file called "index.html". Now, when you want to link to that HTML file, you use the URL to the directory: www.exampledomain.com/about/.

Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points

Yep.

Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points
Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points

You need to understand how file system work.

Info/me is accessing a directory called 'me' inside info directory.

info/me.html is accessing a html file inside info directory.

Xxx.info.html This doesn't make sense. It's probably Xxx/info.html or xxx.info/

Xxx/info.html Is accessing some site's or directory's info.html file.

xxx.info/ is accessing index.html of domain.info if index.html exist. Otherwise you will see file system.

I don't know why you think .html on end of your url is a problem but it's normal if you are accessing .html file.