Serving static files with redirects

OrangyTang

I'm trying to serve a static file (domain.com/page.html) but make it accessible without the extension in the url (domain.com/page). I've tried a bunch of rewrites in a .htaccess file but none of them work:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^.*$ $1.html [L]

...and then I realised, serving it via an Nginx static-only app and I have no idea if htaccess is supported on that. I guess I could redo it as a php+apache app, but then I'd be allowing php which was one of the reasons for using a pure-static app for these files. Some googling shows a variety of ways of doing redirects in nginx, but I'm not sure which are actually relevent to the OpalStack setup.

Short version: What's the best app type to choose to serve static files that also lets me rewrite the urls?

Thanks.

sean

OrangyTang PHP+Apache or the PHP+Apache symlink type is what you need for this.

If the PHP part of that turns you off then you can add Options -ExecCGI to your .htaccess to disable it.

We're looking at implementing a variety of configurable options for static apps, so I'll make a note of your interest in this kind of rewrite.

vsajip

Is there any update on this for static-only apps? I'd like to register my interest, too.

sean

vsajip nothing yet, sorry.