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Posted by Anna Tay
Anna Tay
2,092 Points

.html showing up when linking out

Hi!

I'm creating my own portfolio page, and all of the sudden my pages are showing up as website.com/link.html vs. website.com/link ....hopefully this question makes sense and someone can help me with the issue?

For some background I'm using domain.com to host and am pushing changes through GitHub.

Thank you so much!

1 Answer

Simon Duchaine
Simon Duchaine
14,441 Points
Simon Duchaine
Simon Duchaine
14,441 Points

Hi Anna,

This is perfectly normal. When you build static site (in HTML) the output in your address bar is showing the extension on your file, as the browser reads a 'file' in a directory of your hosting.

As it is more common to develop dynamic sites (such as Wordpress), you've probably seen often URL without the file extension (commonly known as pretty links). By default, when you have a wordpress site, your pages don't show .html extensions.

One last thing, if your on an APACHE server, there's a HTACCESS rule that exist to 'rewrite' your urls without the extension. The problem with that is that you need to take care of all your href. (don't put the .html at the end). Here,s more info on that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2836400/semantic-urls-for-static-html-files-with-htaccess-and-mod-rewrite

Anna Tay
Anna Tay
2,092 Points

Hi Simon,

Thank you for your help.

This is not only when it's on my computer though. I tried on other devices and on my phone. Maybe you can go to my website: annatay.com and see for yourself? I know this issue is kind of hard to describe over a forum. I'd go to the portfolio section which link out to other websites.

Do you know why it was showing without the .html before and now it appears? It was fine up until a week ago.

Thanks again!