Hello,

I am hoping someone might be able to help me figure out a small glitch I am having. I'm not sure if this is possible but i would like to hide the ".html" at the end of my address in the address bar. My fiance and I are trying to post an online wedding registry, she has had cards printed as "xxxxxx.com/registry" when the address of the page i put together is actually "xxxxx.com/registry.html" I am hoping to avoid having the cards reprinted.

If i change the html document so the file extension is lost ( from registry.html to registry), all i get is code when I open the page. If i type in the address but leave off the extension i get an error message saying the file can not be found.
I feel like i have been to websites where i am directed to a different page but do not see ".html" at the end of the address in the address bar. Is this possible or do i need to reprint my registry cards?

How are you hosted? Is serverside scripting available to you? Can you use .htaccess?

Otherwise, something that might work with a little luck is to create a directory called "registry" and rename registry.html to index.html. The correct way to link to a directory is http://xxx/regístry/, with an end slash. But nowadays servers often seem to be configured to amend that. This server is. Note how the slash is added to the below URL.
http://htmlhelp.com/tools
It's ugly though.

Thanks for the quick reply Pandy.

I'm kind of new to this- Im not sure how i am hosted or if i can use .htaccess. How would i be able to tell? My web hosting is through 000Domains, and i have a standard LINUX package if that means anything.

I created a new directory named registry but it doesnt seem to work. Im not positive that i created the directory in the correct place though. I FTP through Filezilla, when i connect i have 3 folders to choose from (log, tmp and webspace), I open webpsace and have 10 more files to choose from. All my current website files are in a folder called httpdocs, this is where i placed the new directory "registry." In this registry directory i placed the renamed file "index.html"

Now when i type xxx.com/registry my browser automatically adds the slash after the 'Y' when i hit return/enter but i am still getting an error message. Is there something else i am not doing correctly?

At least you know the slash thing works.

httpdocs is common name for the webroot (where you put stuff available from the web). But it sounds odd that it's inside a directory called website. Those other files directly in website, what are those? Can you reach them from the web?

the other folders are:

certs
cgi-bin
conf
error_docs
httpdocs
httpsdocs
pd
webapps
webstat
webstatssl

OK. What if you try to go to http://xxx.com/registry/index.html?

Are you sure you named the file index.html? Not index.htm, Index.html or anything else?

That was it! I had renamed it Index.html instead of index.html.

Thank you so much for the help! I'm psyched i wont have to reprint those cards.

As said, it's a little ugly, but if it works it works, eh?