Rewrite URL to HTML file causing rewrite to .html/

Question

I'm currently working on an overhaul of my blog site, and have found a way to convert all my current pages into static html pages. They are currently using friendly url's which remap to a central index.php page with GET parameters attached on.

The change I am trying to make is have those same friendly URL's map to their html counterparts. I am currently using this rule:

RewriteRule ^archives?/([^/]+)/([^/.]+)/?$ archives/$1/$2.html

The error log is reporting that it cant find blah.html/ which means it's looking for the .html directory, instead of the .html file. So a better example:

/archives/2009/original-name

should be getting mapped to

/archives/2009/original-name.html

but is really getting mapped to

/archives/2009/original-name.html/

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

don't you need to use it the other way around? I didn't test the code but it should be something like this:

RewriteRule ^archives/(.*)/(.*).html archives/$1/$2

Answer 2

I can't see anything obviously wrong with your regex.

At a guess I'd say you might have a rule somewhere following this, which is redirecting anything without a trailing slash to its equivalent with the slash (a common thing to do to avoid duplicate content issues).

Answer 3

You didn't escape your period in the 2nd statement. Try this.

RewriteRule ^archives?/([^/]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ archives/$1/$2.html