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milind_bachani
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milind_bachaniAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
March 21, 2022
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.html extension leading to wrong 404 page

  • March 21, 2022
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I have a scenario where if I access:
<domain>/blah-blah (non existing page) redirects me to correct 404 page.


BUT, if I access :
<domain>/blah-blah.html (non existing page with .html extension) redirects me to generic 404 page.

 

Expectation :
Both the scenarios should be redirecting me to custom 404 page (same as scenario1).


Open to suggestions, thanks in advance.

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Best answer by milind_bachani

@debal_das , I was thinking in the same direction by adding :

RewriteRule ^/(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,NE,L]

which strips out the html by default from all accessed URLs, but is it the only way to achieve it ?

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DEBAL_DAS
DEBAL_DAS
March 21, 2022

Are you accessing your website pages without .html extension? if yes then if we add rewrite rule at webserver when you request <domain>/blah-blah.html, it removes .html and redirects you to correct(same) 404 page.

 

We do have this behavior. 

 

    milind_bachani
    Adobe Employee
    milind_bachaniAdobe EmployeeAuthorAccepted solution
    Adobe Employee
    March 21, 2022

    @debal_das , I was thinking in the same direction by adding :

    RewriteRule ^/(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,NE,L]

    which strips out the html by default from all accessed URLs, but is it the only way to achieve it ?

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