Does htaccess work on GitHub Pages?

[blacbrue]

So I wanted to take out the html extension from the url using htaccess. is there any possible way to do it?

[kingthorin]

If you’re using Jekyll you can access the generated content without html extension.

[blacbrue]

So .htaccess doesn’t work on GitHub Pages?

[kingthorin]

No idea, but GH pages do specifically support Jekyll. Jekyll’s rendered HTML can be referenced with or without file extension.

[otter-computer]

GitHub Pages doesn’t support .htaccess, no. Pages does support visiting pages without the .html extension and it will load correctly, but it won’t automatically redirect from the .html version to the URL without it.

[kundalkr]

what i do for 301 redirection on website

[blacbrue]

Okay. Thanks for your response

[3raxton]

Do we have any updates on this as of 2022?

[ethanlevy007]

I hope this will work in the future in GitHub. As, it is looking quite difficult but they have to consider this.

[pohlt]

Don't hold your breath for this feature as it is already available for GH Enterprise. I guess this feature will stay behind the paywall for the foreseeable future.

No hard feelings here. Somehow they have to make money.

[tylerjmorg]

It looks like .htaccess does work with ErrorDocument 404 commands on GitHub Pages. But I have not been able to complete anything else using the file.

[Mihailoff]

https://github.com/server-info/.htaccess (half-serious, for the overall awareness)