Hello,
I want to remove the file extensions on my webpages , for example
www.mydomain.com/index.html to show www.mydomain.com
Can someone please tell me how i can hide the extension of the page(s)? I've read and applied the .htaccess to my root folder public_html but still no effect so i need you guys help.

THanks

Here's the code on my .htaccess file

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/?$ $1.html?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

And you are sure that ehm your server supports .htaccess? and the rewrite engine is on? Abi petrol don finish for the rewrite engine ni?

When you navigate to yourdomain.com does it show index.html?

Here's an alternative

Create directories. For instance, you want www.yourdomain.com/contacts, create a contacts directory in your web root and add rename your original contacts.html to index.html, put it there.

public_html
---contacts
------index.html
---about
------index.html


That is all!

*dhtml:

And you are sure that ehm your server supports .htaccess? and the rewrite engine is on? Abi petrol don finish for the rewrite engine ni?

How I go check weda the server dey support .htaccess? Na wa oh, U dey always forget say I be registered student for ur class oh.

@Mobinga, so am going to have to create that for all the pages? I have almost 20pages. Isn't there a better way or simpler way than this?

rewriterule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)$ /$1.html [L]

I'm not good in using .htaccess

http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3715021.htm

Santa Maria! I laff in spanish, well, you guys got it all wrong - i have been too busy tweaking my framework to reply properly.

Lets do a very short tutorial on redirecting. Rewrite does not actually change the browser path physically.
It just decide on what webpage to load and send the requests to.

For instance my framework which has various links - gets to rewrite everything to

Relative: redirecting any .php to / of the website.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ / [R,NC]

Let us assume you have this .htaccess on say:
http://www.dhtmlkits.com/framework
The browser will immediately redirect to
http://www.dhtmlkits.com/

/ of course means the root. If you are anywhere on your localhost, / will be http://localhost/

Absolute: specify full url to redirect to

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ http://rewrite.com/ [R,NC]

I dont have time to continue. . .let me stop here - hopefully you should be able to carryon from here.