Hi,

 

I only know basic html and css. So when I see websites with a url that doesn't end in '.html' for.eg. "www.example.com/profile" it confuses me. Can someone explain how i can understand and do sites like this.

cheers,

J

As far as I know the server returns index.html or index.php by default if only the directory is given.

I think you can change that behaviour in the .htaccess file , not sure because I don't have any experience with that.

 

Léon

What Leon said. www.example.com/profile will show you the index page is the profile directory on the server example.com.

ah yes, that makes sense!

cheers guys:)

This is true, at more advanced levels you can use .htaccess to negate the need for .html or .php, like WordPress does

This is true, at more advanced levels you can use .htaccess to negate the need for .html or .php, like WordPress does

 

Otherwise known as SEO friendly urls