On 2021-02-27 00:38, Bruce Hill wrote:
> Hello, this is my first time contributing to openbsd and this mailing
> list, so please excuse any newbie blunders. I recently switched my
> personal website to use httpd with statically generated HTML files, but
> was unhappy to find that my HTML files could only be accessed by exact
> filename, including the ".html" at the end. My site previously ran on
> Apache with rewrite rules to ensure that "example.com/foo" would serve
> the file "/foo.html" (when "/foo" didn't exist). I wanted to keep my
> original URLs working and I aesthetically prefer URLs without ".html"
> suffixes, so I looked around for different options with httpd. The best
> option I could find was to create symbolic links from "/foo" to
> "/foo.html" and set the default media type to text/html, but this
> solution was cumbersome (I had to maintain all the symbolic links) and
> had undesirable side effects (all extensionless files were treated as
> text/html instead of text/plain).
>
Hello, wouldn't the following serve for what you want?
location not found match "^/scripts/(.*)$" {
request rewrite "/scripts/%1.php"
}
location not found match "^/(.*)$" {
request rewrite "/%1.html"
}
