How to remove .html suffix?

Question

I have a running store with around 600 products and wanted to remove the HTML suffix from my URLs.

I removed the HTML in the config and reindexed. All HTML pages are being redirected to the non-HTML variants.

I have read online people are putting the 301 redirects manually in their .htaccess

e.g. RewriteRule ^index.php/?(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

But is this really necessary when I don't get 404s?

Is manual .htaccess 301 redirect necessary?

Any insight appreciated

Thanks

Answer 1

In theory when you updated the config magento should have created the redirects in the url rewrite db table. Therefore updating htacess is unnecessary.