Serve /about from about.html with the clean-URLs option
Add the line # ee:clean-urls on to your _redirects file and an address like /about serves about.html directly, with no redirect. For sites that build page.html files instead of a folder per page. Level 0 sites only.
Some site generators write each page as a flat file, about.html, but link to it as /about. Until now the edge served /about only if a file existed at exactly that path, so those links needed a rule each in _redirects.
Add this line anywhere in your _redirects file:
# ee:clean-urls onand a request for /about serves about.html when your site has it. Quartz, Observable Framework, vite-ssg and Hono’s static site helper work this way by default, as do VitePress, Rspress, VuePress and HonKit with their own clean-URLs option turned on.
How it behaves
- It’s a rewrite, not a redirect. The visitor stays on
/about, which is the address your own links use. - Your own rules come first. An explicit rule for a path wins. Then clean URLs are tried, then the trailing-slash option if you use it. With both on,
/aboutservesabout.htmlwhere it exists and moves to/about/where it doesn’t, so a site can switch pages to folders one at a time. /about.htmlstill serves. Let your generator’s canonical tag say which address is preferred./about/doesn’t fall back toabout.html. That would give every page a third address.- A real file at the path wins. If your site has both
LICENSEandLICENSE.html,/LICENSEservesLICENSE. (Before v0.0.115 it served the.htmlfile.) about.htmlcounts as a real page at/about. A catch-all rule such as/* /404.html 404doesn’t hide it. A forced (!) rule still wins, as it does over any real file.- Level 0 sites only, like everything in
_redirects.
The line is a comment, so the same file still works unchanged on Netlify or Cloudflare Pages.