How to remove .html extension

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I have read in the documentation about the permalinks.

In my website, I have used permalink: none. But it still doesn’t remove .html extension, it only removes the date.

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this needs server configuration, see the docs:

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I have read the documentation.

When I use permalink: none then it only disappear the date from the link.
When I use permalink: pretty then it only disappear the extension.

But I want both. So how to do it?

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you don’t have to use the premade ones like none or pretty, you can make your own, I think maybe you want it to be:

permalink: /:categories/:title

You then need to make sure your webserver is set to not show the extension. I do not have direct experience with extensionless urls, it seems more durable to me to just have a trailing slash at the end.

In another thread you asked about hosting on AWS, if you meant S3 then I think extensionless urls are not easy to do - I use S3 a lot, and when I looked at doing extensionless urls it lookes like you had to actually remove the extension from each file, is that just seems like a bad idea - jekyll is not going to do that.

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I have tried to use the .htaccess file. (Not on S3, but on simple server) Reading from this blog

But it messes all my Jekyll website, when I have uploaded that file in my root directory it doesn’t open any blog post but when I added /index with every link then opens up.

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an .htaccess file is something that is used by apache (?) on your web server. It will not work with AWS S3.

AWS S3 isn’t really a web server in that sense. It is a great way to host a website, but if you want to do complex server config it likely will not work for you.

When you ask questions, please add more detail, like above, I am assuming you added the htaccess file to S3, but maybe not - you gave no detail as to how you are hosting. I realize it is work for you to add detail, but it is work for us to answer and you will increase your chance of success with more detail / googling first.

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@yashumittal have you checked out https://learn.cloudcannon.com/jekyll/permalinks/

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@yashumittal https://jekyllrb.com/docs/permalinks/#extensionless-permalinks

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Read this article to know more: https://medium.com/@mittalyashu/how-to-remove-html-extension-in-jekyll-efeb48bd725f