如果同一目录下的文件名和文件夹名相同，如何从 URL 中删除 .html 扩展名

Question

Ok, so I've tried looking up this answer, and talked to ppl on discord, but it doesn't seem like there is an answer for this, so this is probably my last stop.

This is my file structure

> index.html
> x (FOLDER)
   > i_am_in_x.html
   > xD.html
> y (FOLDER)
   > not.html
   > yes.html
> somefile.html
> x.html
> y.html
> styles (FOLDER)
> images (FOLDER)

The goal is: to remove the ".html" extension at the end of the page.

Example:
example.com/x instead of example.com/x.html;
example.com/y/not instead of example.com/y/not.html**
Any ideas on how I can accomplish this?

I've used aa few different codes. The one I'm currently using: (.htaccess)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html

Answer 1

You can use DirectorySlash off in your htaccess file. This will allow you to rewrite a file with the same name as directory.
At the top of your .htaccess ( before existing rules) put the following line:

DirectorySlash off

This turns off the slash on a directory and makes it possible to perform URL Rewriting. There are some advantages and disadvantages of using this.

Advantages:

You can use RewriteRule to remove the extension so you can just type /folder instead of /folder.html .

Disadvantages:

By disabling directorySlash functionalities your directory structure may be visible to browsers if they direct access your directory by going to /folder/ .

Reference https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryslash