How to exclude my admin directories from hiding .html in its urls

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How to exclude my admin directories from hiding .html in its urls

Rich K 21

I'm using this to remove the .html in urls on my website:

    <rewrite>  
        <rules>  
            <remove name="Redirecting .html ext" />  
            <remove name="Hide .html ext" />  
            <rule name="Hide .html ext" enabled="true">  
                <match url="^(.*)" ignoreCase="true" />  
                <conditions>  
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />  
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />  
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html" matchType="IsFile" />  
                </conditions>  
                <serverVariables />  
                <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:0}.html" />  
            </rule>  
            <rule name="Redirecting .html ext" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">  
                <match url="^(.*).html" />  
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">  
                    <add input="{URL}" pattern="^(.*)\.html$" />  
                </conditions>  
                <serverVariables />  
                <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}" />  
            </rule>  
        </rules>  
    </rewrite>

I need to omit my --admin directory and all its subdirectories from having html removed

Tried a few things from similar questions but no luck.

I want to exclude www.website.com/--admin from having any of it's html extensions removed.

I use www.website.com/--admin/page.html?id=new and similar and if html is removed it all fails

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Hi @Rich K ,

According to your description, I think you want to hide .html in the URL, but don't want to hide .html in the URL containing the admin directory and all its subdirectories, because this will give an error.
I have a method that requires some modification to your rewrite rule named Redirecting .html ext. In the matching URL, use regular expressions to exclude specific strings "admin".

<match url="^(.*).html" /> is changed to <match url="^(?!admin)(.*).html" / >

This worked for me, you can try it.

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Best regards,
Yurong Dai

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Rich K 21

That slight change works.

What's sorta odd but a-ok is when I go to my admin page for the 1st time
www.website.com/--admin/index.html

The .html is still omitted, but only on that 1st index page

All other links like www.website.com/--admin/page.html?id=new
show the .html and anything I want done regarding id= or action= on my admin pages works just fine.

THANKS

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