How can I generate links without the ".html" extension?

[Dave Hollingworth]

I'm new to Nikola (and loving it by the way!) and I'm creating a theme for my blog. I would like to have urls without the ".html" extension. So, instead of this:

example.com/blog-post.html

I would like:

example.com/blog-post

I have no problem with the actual file having the extension, because I'm using server-side rewrites to handle that. I just want the permalink to not have the extension.

I have discovered that I can do this to generate the link without the extension:

<a href="${post.permalink(extension='')}">

Which works nicely. However, it does mean that if I share the theme with someone else, they have to edit it if they don't want links like that. So is there some way I can achieve this without doing it the theme? I suppose ideally in the configuration file. Is this possible and if so how could I do it?

Many thanks!

Dave

[Puneeth Chaganti]

Dave Hollingworth writes:

> Which works nicely. However, it does mean that if I share the theme with
> someone else, they have to edit it if they don't want links like that. So

> is there some way I can achieve this *without* doing it the theme? I

> suppose ideally in the configuration file. Is this possible and if so how
> could I do it?

You could have a config variable that can be set in the config, and then
generate links with or without extension, based on the value of that variable.

[Chris Warrick]

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Nikola actually has two settings that do everything for you:
PRETTY_URLS and STRIP_INDEXES. It uses folders with index.html files,
and requires no special support in themes and your web server.

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[Dave Hollingworth]

Thank you both for your replies - @Chris, just tried that and it works nicely, thanks!