Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by johnx123-up on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:39AM (#26600445)

> I do things like serve html without the .html filetype in the url; e.g. https://zck.org/emacsconf2020 is stored on the server as emacsconf2020.html

How do you handle it?

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by zck on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:58AM (#26600519)

In the .htaccess:

  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond ${REQUEST_FILENAME} !-D
  RewriteRule "^((?:.*/)*[^/.]+)$" "$1.html" [NC]

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by hunter2_ on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:29PM (#26611643)

Any reason not to just use

  Options MultiViews

instead?

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by zck on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:43PM (#26611764)

Mainly because I did not know that existed. I'll have to test it before thinking about switching it out. I wonder if there's some sort of unit test suite for .htaccess configurations -- big changes like this could definitely break something, and my config works for me now.

It does seem like it might be more magic than I prefer in programming, though.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by johnx123-up on Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:15AM (#26601056)

Thank you

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