_redirects not working as expected

[gushy0202]

Project ID: 4ced3b38-30ba-4043-8a2a-29e821fd952d

Non tech user here. I deployed a simple static website from my github repo to mydomain.com (hiding the name)

page.html is where files hosted.

mydomain.com/page pretty url is working correctly and using mydomain.com/page.html (before even i created the _redirects file)

but when we access mydomain.com/page.html that is also opening with .html in the url, i want it to redirect to 301 mydomain.com/page

Used the below _redirects file in build output folder in my git repo but still no luck!!!

This looks to be high level error so not sharing site name. if its must then ill share it as well.

please help and thank you.

_redirects file:

latest deploy log shows all rules processed without errors but not working…

• 8 redirect rules processed
  All redirect rules deployed without errors.

[nathanmartin]

@gushy0202 You cannot do that with redirects.

Netlify pretty urls won't strip .html extension

There is no way to prevent us from serving the .html URL if someone types it in. The idea is, you don’t publish that URL, nobody finds it, and thus you have no duplicate content problems. The Pretty URL’s feature just REWRITES your html and js and css to link to /file instead of /file.html. We’ll still serve both, with or without the feature enabled.

A solution is to specify the canonical url:

How to remove duplicate URL from Google Search? (indexed all *.html urls by accident)

You should have a canonical URL on each of your pages. Read here: 網址標準化和標準標記 | Google 搜尋中心  |  說明文件  |  Google Developers. Then, even if Google sees duplicate pages, it won’t be a problem. As for what you can do for now is, try to remove the duplicate pages from Search Console.

Another option would be Edge Functions:

Disabled Pretty URLS but .html-less links continue to work and be indexed by search engines

You can use Edge Functions to handle this: but not with simple _redirects.

[gushy0202]

thanks this can be closed