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Digital Literacy

Posted by Ben Schnell
Ben Schnell
14,763 Points

Creating clean URL's with a static site.

I just uploaded my personal site for the first time, and I want to have clean urls, like benschnell.com/blog instead of benschnell.com/blog.html.

I know it has something to do with .htaccess, but do I need to link the .htaccess file from hmtl or somewhere else in my project?

Do I just upload the .htaccess to my root directory?

1 Answer

Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

There are three ways I know of doing it. One is to use rewrite rules in .htaccess. Another is to have a subfolder with the name of each clean URL and rename every html or php file index.html or index.php. The final way is to use the Slim framework. The first two methods are covered in the second course on building a website in the PHP section. The final one has its own course in PHP.

Ben Schnell
Ben Schnell
14,763 Points

Thanks Ted! I'll look into those methods and try it out.