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Index.html not redirecting to root

July 6, 2022 at 9:45 pm #7693
[anonymous]
Hi,

I’m using Netlify.

Currently, all the pages on the site are accessible with and without index.html at the end of the URL.

I turned on pretty URLs, but that didn’t work.

I then added this code:
```
[[redirects]]
from = "/*/index.html"
to = "/:splat:"
status = 200
force = false
```
Even that’s not working. If I add true to force, it shows a 404 error, but it won’t strip index.html off of the URLs.

What should I do?
July 7, 2022 at 10:38 am #7694

[anonymous]

Hope this .htaccess rule may solve your problem

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.html !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.php !-f
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yourdomainname.com
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>

July 7, 2022 at 11:05 am #7696

[anonymous]

Hey, thanks for the snippet. I’ve tried it, but unfortunately, it didn’t work.

July 30, 2022 at 4:53 pm #7896
[anonymous]
Hi,

It is due nature of static websites – even if you are using pretty URLs, Publii will generate directory where index.html exists – so both URLs will work:

/post-slug/

/post-slug/index.html

Unfortunately the only way to handle this is server configuration which will redirect index.html to the directory path.

.htaccess won’t work on Netlify, in fact it seems to be problematic to achieve on Netlify, maybe please try such config:
```
[[redirects]]
  from = "/:slug/index.html"
  to = "/:slug/"
  status = 200
  force = false
```