So the idea is to remove the .html extension from each page like so...
www.website.com/File.html > www.website.com/File
www.website.com/Folder/File.html > www.website.com/Folder/File
Now I've managed to do this using a URL Rewrite, but it means having to write a rewrite for each page, which is time consuming, not efficient and impractical say if the website is more than 20 pages.
Is there a way to do this by writing just one or two rewrites in the web.config?
This solution worked for me in the end:
<rule name="RedirectUserFriendlyURL1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(.*)\.(.*)$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="^POST$" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
<rule name="RewriteUserFriendlyURL1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}.(.*)" />
</rule>
Use the rewrite module for IIS 7.x:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/webmaster/url-rewriting-with-iiss-url-rewrite-module/710
Although I have tried this, I've never gotten the actual rule set to do it automatically without having a rule per page name.
+1 to anyone who can shed light on this!