Ryan, I really don't want to experiment on my online web store as it can drastically have a bad impact on web users.
TR, Can this be done?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [L]
In my site all pages are in html extensions. For the best seo practice what should I do?
If your new URLs are exactly the same as your old URLs, but without the .html extension, then yes that will work. If they're not exactly the same, then you will have to have many rules, more like the example I gave. You should use the R=301, because that tells the search engine permanently change the URLs in their index.
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