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My site URL is http://funandfoodcafe.com I changed my Permalink structure to Postname today, and I am using WP 3.5.

All the links on the site redirect to the new structure correctly, but all incoming links, from Google or any other referring sites still go to "http://funandfoodcafe.com/post-name.html" instead of "http://funandfoodcafe.com/post-name/"

The extra .html is causing all incoming links to result in 404 errors. I get heavy referral traffic, so this is really bad, because its almost like my site is down!

Can someone help me resolve this issue please?

Thanks, Mansi

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In your .htaccess file put:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html$
RewriteRule (.*).html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

That should redirect with a "moved permaently" from the .html pages to pages with the endings stripped. It should probably go above your WordPress rules. It should even preserve query strings-- at least it did when I tested it.

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  • Aah! thanks so much ha_dum, that worked. I needed to add another redirect statement to my .htaccess too, for some other links that were not being redirected by using WP alone, so I added these 3 lines to my .htaccess file: "RedirectMatch 301 ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ funandfoodcafe.com/$3 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html$ RewriteRule (.*).html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]" and looks liek its working for now...will test some more and let you know how it goes!
    – Mansi
    Commented Jan 24, 2013 at 0:35

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