Comments for Archive File Path without file extension?

Archive File Path without file extension?

2008-11-20T22:34:00Z

I searched for hours and tried different solutions before to post this message. I’m trying to have all my permalinks to entries (as well as archive pages) without an extension in the end. Something like: http://mysite.com/blog/2008/11/19/new-design-launched-using-movable-type I have the following Archive Mapping for my Entry Archives: blog/%y/%m/%d/%-F

The thing is that when I access that link from my browser, It displays the content of the HTML page and not the page itself. So, I added an .htaccess file at the root of my blog and server with the following content: DefaultType text/html DirectoryIndex index index.html

Even with this .htaccess file, it doesn’t change anything and still displays the HTML content of the entries and not the entry itself (rendered from HTML by my browser).

Have any ideas why? Can somebody help me?

Thank you!

Comment from Culture Snob on 2008-11-20

2008-11-20T22:52:19Z

I've struggled with this, too, and tried a variety of remedies that were less than ideal.

The easiest thing to do is to set your archive path to yyyy/mm/entry-basename/index.php (one of the default options; you could also do .html). The "index.*" doesn't actually show up with the permalinks.

Personally, I also found it helpful to create another archive map for my old permalink structure (which was yyyy/mm/entry_basename.php) with redirect code to the new page.

All this prevents you having to mess with your .htaccess file.

Comment from Mathieu on 2008-11-20

2008-11-20T22:58:28Z

So the easiest thing to do is to not do it? Just no choice than having the URL with a .html extension? :(

Thanks!

Comment from Mike T on 2008-11-20

2008-11-20T23:09:48Z

That's not what he/she said. Go to the Entry listing archive template, and change it so that it generates your entry listings according to the format yyyy/mm/entry-basename/index.html which is one of the standard options in the archive mapping.

Comment from Culture Snob on 2008-11-20

2008-11-20T23:10:20Z

I wasn't clear on this point.

The permalink will be this:

http://www.example.com/2008/11/dummy-slug/

The actual file structure will be

http://www.example.com/2008/11/dummy-slug/index.html

But readers will never see the "index.html" part.

So it's not technically serving extension-less files, but it acts the same.

Is that clearer?

Comment from Mathieu on 2008-11-20

2008-11-20T23:52:59Z

Ok, I see. It seems to work fine.
Thank you very much!