make apache2 serve file as htmL? (kinda urgent)

[Christopher Browne]

On 1/12/07, Chris McDermott <chris.trismegistus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I just screwed up and wrote down the wrong url in my lecture:
> > http://www.derailleur.org/global
> > instead of
> > http://www.derailleur.org/global.html
>
> Make a directory named 'global' and move the file to 'global/index.html'.

That seems as though it would work, but it also seems a crummy answer to me.

I'd like to be able to have my web pages all leave out the ".html"
suffix, and still work.  (Aside: People seem to keep forgetting that
Unix has NO SUCH THING as a "file extension."  It's not MS-DOS.  It's
not VMS.  It's not MVS.  All of those systems had special portions of
filenames known as an "extension."  Unix doesn't do that.)

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
"Cool URIs don't change"

They suggest leaving out all sorts of things that often get stowed in a URI:
 - Author's name
 - Subject classification
 - Status (old/draft/latest/cool/lastweek)
 - Access permissions (public/private/team/...)
 - File name extension
 - Software mechanisms (.cgi, /exec/, .pl, ...)

There's no good reason to publish your technical details as part of
the URL, except that web servers sometimes make it inconvenient to do
otherwise...
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