HTML extention help please

[PeteMag]

Hello,

New poster here and I have a question I hope someone can help me out with.

I would like to find out how to make a page where"www.xxx.com/xxx.html" would be able to be typed in as "www.xxx.com/xxx" Is there a way to get rid of the .html extention.
I tried to create a new index page in a subdirectory but it doesn't seem to work. Is there something more to this? Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance!

Pete

[Miruvor]

Sorry, but I think you have to put in the .htm

Just make sure that your navbar is graphically appealing, and easy to spot.

[BonRouge]

I tried to create a new index page in a subdirectory but it doesn't seem to work.

That should work fine.

[PeteMag]

Hmmm, I must be doing something wrong then. I keep getting a "page not found" error.

[Kravvitz]

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