Hello, I’m confused at what the Pretty Url is supposed to be doing. Or more specifically, what is Netlify default behavior when this option is not enabled. I have a website available at https://gamemaster.pixelastic.com/ (which actually serves https://gamemaster-pixelastic.netlify.com/ ). I have c…

When you enable Pretty URLs, our system will also rewrite the links in your html to remove the html extension. This is mentioned in our redirects docs .

hi there, did you see this blog article? [image] Control your asset optimization settings from netlify.toml Control asset optimization options directly from your code as to keep your code and configuration all in the same place, and under the same version control. …

Hey, thanks for the link. I didn’t know I could trigger those settings from my netlify.toml file, that good news. Still, I didn’t find any information on the Pretty URL feature. What does it add that Netlify does do out of the box? In my tests, you already normalize /foo, /foo/ and /foo.html to ser…

Oh ok, thanks! So it’s actually rewriting the content of the page itself, and not adding any new redirect rules. Thanks for the clarification!

Confused by Pretty Url behavior

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jonsully December 31, 2020, 3:23pm 6

Not intending to resurrect the dead here, but this topic gets a good amount of SEO hits and I want to make sure folks coming around get the info they’re looking for:

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Confused by Pretty Url behavior

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