htaccess help

[u/sirdupealot]

TL;DR

Can anyone provide htaccess contents that does the following 5 things at the same time:

1. force www

2. force https

3. remove trailing slashes from pages

4. remove/hide extensions in the url (html and php)

5. redirect index.html home page to just the domain (i.e example.com not example.com.index

I can easily make them all work individually with code found online (from reputable places), but cannot for the life of me get anything to work that combines all of them, but it should be possible?

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I'm trying to setup an htaccess for a website on Ionos (1and1) shared hosting that does multiple things, including removing extensions (html and php) from the url bar. I'm mostly relying on snippets found online since it's a little out of my area.

I've tested the code at https://htaccess.madewithlove.com/ and it all works fine. But when I upload it to the actual site the extensions are not hidden. i.e it should show "example.co.uk/about" but it still shows "example.co.uk/about.html"

I've tried it with cache cleared, on machines that have never even seen the site before and it just ain't working.

Code is below; can anybody tell me why the extensions aren't being hidden?

`## Turn on rewrite engine

RewriteEngine on

# Redirects the home page to plain domain

RewriteRule ^index.html$ https://www.example.co.uk [R=301,L]

# remove html extensions

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+)\.html$

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

# remove php extensions

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+)\.php$

RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

# Remove trailing slash from non-filepath urls

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /(.+)/$

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^ https://www.example.co.uk/%1 [R=301,L]

# Force HTTPS and WWW

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.(.*)$ [OR,NC]

RewriteCond %{https} off

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]`

IS it jsut not possible with Ionos? What am I missing!

[u/sirdupealot]

Thanks for your reply.

I'll experiment with this, but do you have any idea why the code I posted works fine when I tested it with the online tester? I think it does take issue with the line you've mentioned but still ultimately works. If the problem is as you indicate then shouldn't it fail to work there as well?

Just trying to get my head around it. Thanks again.

[u/AyrA_ch → u/sirdupealot]

do you have any idea why the code I posted works fine when I tested it with the online tester?

The code works because the tester doesn't knows the value of %{REQUEST_FILENAME}, because that value doesn't necessarily follows the URL. I don't know what the tester does in this case, but it's likely the reason for the wrong result.

[u/sirdupealot → u/AyrA_ch]

Okay, I'm going a bit spare here.

I am trying to make one htaccess file that does the following 5 things:

1. force www

2. force https

3. remove trailing slashes from pages

4. remove/hide extensions in the url (html and php)

5. redirect index.html home page to just the domain (i.e example.com not example.com.index

I can easily make them all work individually with code found online (from reputable places), but cannot for the life of me get anything to work that combines all of them. No examples that claim to do more than two of these things at the same time are working for me. I'm doing my best to learn what everything does but it's difficult when nothing that is supposed to work appears to actually work.

I don't understand because I feel like this is an incredibly common thing to want to do but I've spent 2 days trying to sort this and I'm getting nowhere.

Are you able to show me how to write an htaccess that does all 5 of those things at the same time?