mod_rewrite and .html

[Tys]

I would like to remove the .html off the end of my entry urls. For me the whole point to using mod_rewrite is to make my urls pretty, tossing on a .html on the end defeats that for me.

ie, it currently is:
http://domain.com/archives/57-entry.html

and I would like just:
http://domain.com/archives/57-entry

I have tried mucking around with the .htaccess rules with no luck. http://domain.com/archives/57-entry will just show all entries instead of entry 57. Any idea how to accomplish this?

[garvinhicking]

Okay. I'll tell you the modifications for Serendipity 0.8. They basically also apply to 0.7, but in 0.7 you will find the files in different directories.

1. Open your include/tpl/htaccess_rewrite.tpl file
2. Modify those patterns:

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RewriteRule ^{PAT_ARCHIVES} {indexFile}?url=/{PATH_ARCHIVES}/$1.html [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)[_\-][0-9a-z_\-]*\.html {indexFile}?url=$1-article.html [L,NC,QSA]

to this:

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RewriteRule ^{PAT_ARCHIVES} {indexFile}?url=/{PATH_ARCHIVES}/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)[_\-][0-9a-z_\-]*{indexFile}?url=$1-article [L,NC,QSA]

2. Open your serendipity_config.inc.php file. Change those constants:

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@define('PERM_ARCHIVES', '%id%-%title%.html');
@define('PAT_ARCHIVES', '@/'.PATH_ARCHIVES.'([/A-Za-z0-9]+)\.html@');
@define('PAT_COMMENTSUB', '@/([0-9]+)[_\-][' . PAT_FILENAME . ']*\.html@i');

into this:

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@define('PERM_ARCHIVES', '%id%-%title%');
@define('PAT_ARCHIVES', '@/'.PATH_ARCHIVES.'([/A-Za-z0-9]+)@');
@define('PAT_COMMENTSUB', '@/([0-9]+)[_\-][' . PAT_FILENAME . ']*@i');

If you're using 0.7 you will also need to open serendipity_functions.inc.php and change function serendipity_archiveURL() into:

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function serendipity_archiveURL($id, $title, $key = 'baseURL', $checkrewrite = true) {
global $serendipity;

    return $serendipity[$key] . ($checkrewrite && $serendipity['rewrite'] == 'none' ? $serendipity['indexFile'] . '?/' : '') . PATH_ARCHIVES . '/' . (int)$id . '-' . serendipity_makeFilename($title);
}

3. Then go to Serendipity configuration, set your URL Rewriting to None, Save, set it to 'mod_rewrite' and save again. This will recreate your .htaccess with your new htaccess_rewrite.tpl settings.

Then it should work. Note that however searchengines like google will now score your URLs lower, because at the moment .html files have higher precedence than a path name.

Regards,
Garvin

[Tys]

Thank you, I was just trying to change them in the .htaccess file, this clears things up.

As for the .html and google, good point, I can see why the majority of people might want the .html.