URL Rewrite - Remove .html extension

Question

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?

Answer 1

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!

Answer 2

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>