How to display files without the extension - Help

[me_myself]

I was looking at this website recently (http://www.cssninjas.com/) - they show their pages without the extension (.html) - i was wondering how they do it. Would be great if you can let me know how to do that.

Thanks.

[bluewalrus]

make the directories with the name you'd want the page to be called then put an index.html into it

[olveyphotodesign]

This is done by editing your http_config file on your Apache_server. Here's a link to the Apache Wiki http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/con...gotiation.html. I hope it points you in the right direction.

Ben

[tracy16]

make the directories with the name you'd want the page to be called then put an index.html into it

you mean make a folder say "tourist info" and put the index page. but will make so many folders if the site is big be appropriate. and the apache thing i did not get. can i get a bit more explanation for it.

thanks
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[Medyman]

CSS Ninjas is probably using some sort of content management system. Using PHP, it's easy to get the effect you want. But the site has to built with that consideration from the start.

For example, take the page http://www.cssninjas.com/features
The actual URI of this could be http://www.cssninjas.com/index.php?page=features. But using .htaccess, you can rewrite it so it becomes http://www.cssninjas.com/features.

Have a look at this article for more information on mod_rewrite (the process described above).

Note: You don't need to be using URL variables to use mod_rewrite. I just use that as an example as it's a very common use case.