Remove locale appending in url Liferay

I will be explaining how to  remove locale from the  liferay portal url which is defaultly appending to the url ,

Consider a site url
http://hostname/fi_FI/web/patient/dashboard
locale(fi_FI) is appended to the url . We dont want locale to be appended to the url .

There are two solutions for this issue .

1) Set the following property in portal-ext.properties

 locale.prepend.friendly.url.style=0

2) We need to add the rewrite rule in urlrewrite.xml file which is available under WEB-INF folder of server .

   
            ^(.*)/web/pages$
            /web/pages$