Create .htaccess redirect rule that removes an extension of files served from the root but not sub-d-CodePudding

I'd like to redirect all .htm documents in the root (i.e. www.example.com/page.htm) to remove the extension (i.e. www.example.com/page/) but not redirect .htm documents in sub-directories (i.e. www.example.com/subdir/page.htm).

How is that done in .htaccess?

CodePudding user response：

Try something like the following at the top of the root .htaccess file, before the existing WordPress directives (ie. before # BEGIN WordPress).

# Redirect "/<page>.htm" to "/<page>/"
RewriteRule ^([^./] )\.htm$ /$1/ [R=302,L]

You do not need to repeat the RewriteEngine directive, as this already occurs later in the WordPress directives. (The order of the RewriteEngine directive does not matter - the last instance "wins".)

This removes the .htm extension from any requested URL in the root only and appends a trailing slash (as in your example). This also assumes <page> itself does not contain a dot.

Note that this is a 302 (temporary) redirect. If this is intended to be permanent then change it to a 301, but only after you have confirmed that it works (to avoid potential caching issues).