On Github Pages it already works: I can create a page with path /pagetitle.html, and use URL /pagetitle (without .html).

The problem is that to do that I have to setup all my links without the .html, which breaks the links on the test server.

For posts, this is already possible with permalink: /:title.

Is there any way to do it for pages also?

Workarounds:

• use posts instead of pages. Not satisfactory because:

  • it requires you to use an unwanted date prefix Allow post filenames to have no date #484 , which is not going to change
  • it forces all your posts to be of /:title format.

• put the file in a folder with the desired name and rename it as index.html.

  Too much boilerplate.

• use Apache and play with .htaccess.

  Requires to install and setup Apache...

Related discussions:

• Generating URLs without .html extensions #156: seems to focus on Posts, not Pages as this issue, and was closed after the permalink: /:title solution came up, but this does not yet work for pages.
• How did you make Jekyll do standalone pages without the .html extension? holman/ama#231: stuck with the index workaround