htaccess mod url rewrite not working

Question

Trying to rewrite former urls to the latter. Rewrite that doesn't work for some reason. How to fix? Thanks.

www.example.com/example-example.html

www.example.com/example-example/

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+-?[a-z]+)/$ /$1.html

Answer 1

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html

Answer 2

Try this:

RewriteRule ^([a-z-]+)/?$ $1.html

This will silently rewrite a user's request for /example-example/ to an actual file path /example-example.html. No checking is performed to see whether the file path exists, and it will match any request which contains letters and hyphens. If you need more specific constraints, let us know.