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**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** redirects\
**Created:** [July 2, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/redirect-from-html-to-vuepress/18080 "2020-07-02T16:28:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:**  [@karthiks](https://answers.netlify.com/u/karthiks)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/redirect-from-html-to-vuepress/18080/1 "2020-07-02T16:28:23Z")
Hey Team,
I have a static website deployed and currently the URLs have ‘.html’ extension in the URL bar. I want to put a redirect from ‘.html’ to ‘’.
I added the redirect in \_redirects and I can see the message on deploy - ‘xx redirect rules successfully processed’. However, the redirect isn’t working.
Am I missing something here?
The presence of both ‘.html’ and ‘’ is causing the issue of duplicate content for SEO. And I need ‘\’ to be a valid redirect (and not a 404) since I have pages linking to the URL.
The website I am talking about is [freelancer-report.flexiple.com](http://freelancer-report.flexiple.com) and a sample URL is [Freelance Market Statistics & Trends [Updated for 2022]](https://freelancer-report.flexiple.com/2-current-trends.html).
A rule in my \_redirects file looks like this -
/2-current-trends.html /2-current-trends
Not sure if it is relevant, but since the netlify url is also asked, here you go: [https://wonderful-curie-583b93.netlify.app/](https://wonderful-curie-583b93.netlify.app/)
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**Author:**  [@gregraven](https://answers.netlify.com/u/gregraven)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/redirect-from-html-to-vuepress/18080/2 "2020-07-03T17:34:33Z")
@karthiks It sounds as though you should have used Asset optimization (in Build & Deploy in your Netlify dashboard) instead of redirects.
This will give you the “pretty” URLs you seem to want.
Then you should hard-code the canonical URL in each file, which will eliminate the “duplicate content” issue.