codeigniter url_suffix ( .html) issue

Hello guys..

i have been using codeigniter over 7 years.recently i start using $config['url_suffix'] = '.html'; feature

After that when i checked google web master tool,it detecting two different url version

example:-

http://www.example.com/news
http://www.example.com/news.html

Problem is http://www.example.com/news not redirecting to http://www.example.com/news.html automatically. 

so google bot mark http://www.example.com/news as duplicate page

is anyway to force avoid this case?i try to check current url have .html,if not use 301 redirect to .html url version..

but even for http://www.example.com/news

Code:

echo current_url();

out put http://www.example.com/news.html

Please help

This are a job for your server (nginx or Apache) to fix. Haven't written such a rule, so can't give you any real tips there.

May I ask why you are doing it in the first place? You also set an canonical url and Google will pick it up as an alias instead.

This are a job for your server (nginx or Apache) to fix. Haven't written such a rule, so can't give you any real tips there.

May I ask why you are doing it in the first place? You also set an canonical url and Google will pick it up as an alias instead.

i like to use .html for all urls,that give clear url structure,while some users think site create using html

i solved problem using

Code:

$escaped_url = html_escape( remove_invisible_characters($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
if( strpos( $escaped_url, ".html" ) === false) {
    redirect ( current_url(), 'location', 301 );
}