Using .htaccess to change my website URLs

Question

I have some pages organised like this:

http://localhost/index.html
http://localhost/download.html
http://localhost/contact.html

And I need them changed to suit the following URL structure:

http://localhost/
http://localhost/download
http://localhost/contact

Without making sub directories and putting in pages as index.html. As far as I know .htaccess can be used for this, but I have no idea what I need to add to my .htaccess file to make this work.

Can anyone provide some help? Thanks.

Answer 1

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