Setting up netlify.toml for pretty url

[nathanmartin]

@luisrieke Do you have links that point to your URLs with .html as the suffix?

The default behaviour of Netlify would be that if you had a file /running.html that it would be accessible from /running.

See the note here about a file at /blog.html:

[Support Guide] How can I alter trailing slash behaviour in my URLs? Will enabling Pretty URLs help?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support: July 2025 First Steps Depending on how you configure your site, you may be served either www.example.com/about or www.example.com/about/ – so, what’s easiest? What’s best? What’s the way to make this behaviour match what you want it to do? One source notes: Theoretically a URL with a trailing slash implies a directory and a URL without a trailing slash is a file, but this isn’t really important anymore. Although it may not be important, it’s a good rule of…