Pretty URLs Not Working

[nathanmartin]

@gamwebsites The Pretty URL’s feature that is shown under Asset Optimization is an Asset Optimization.

You will need to ensure it is enabled, and perform a fresh build for it to have any impact.

Please note that it doesn’t perform redirects, it just searches your files to adjust the href= values after your build completes.

Additional explanation here:

Setting up netlify.toml for pretty url

I believe part of the confusion here is whether or not the ‘Asset optimization - Pretty URLs’ is supposed to apply any redirection of a users request for a file. My understanding, based on the description written under it, is that it scans and changes your HTML to remove references to URLs ending in .html, so if you had a link of href="/about.html", it would adjust your code to href="/about". What @luisrieke is questioning is that if a user is directly accessing a file with the .html extension…