Convert PHP addresses to HTML

[IWT]

Ive heard about some sort of script or program that converts a web
address with a php extension to that with a html. E.g. say if you had
www.abc.com/123.php the user would be able to access this via
www.abc.com/123.html.
We're creating a new site in php and dont want to effect our search
engine rankings by getting rid of all our existing html pages.

Any information would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Tom

[Kirsten]

IWT schrieb:

Ive heard about some sort of script or program that converts a web
address with a php extension to that with a html. E.g. say if you had
www.abc.com/123.php the user would be able to access this via
www.abc.com/123.html.
We're creating a new site in php and dont want to effect our search
engine rankings by getting rid of all our existing html pages.

Any information would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Tom

Hi,

edit your httpd.conf or set a .htaccess file with this contens

AddType application/x-httpd-php php php4 php3 html htm

Then you are able to save your php files with the extension .html and
the parse will be activated at request.

Kirsten

[Ewoud Dronkert]

IWT wrote:

www.abc.com/123.php the user would be able to access this via
www.abc.com/123.html.

You could use
1) symbolic links in the file system (unix command ln -s),
2) redirects in html header from html to php file,
3) apache rewrite engine (see manual on apache.org),
4) add .html extension as type for php parsing in httpd.conf;
and maybe other approaches as well.

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E. Dronkert

[Philip Ronan]

"IWT" wrote:

Ive heard about some sort of script or program that converts a web
address with a php extension to that with a html. E.g. say if you had
www.abc.com/123.php the user would be able to access this via
www.abc.com/123.html.
We're creating a new site in php and dont want to effect our search
engine rankings by getting rid of all our existing html pages.

Are you on an Apache server? If so, try putting this in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [C,E=dothtml:tru e]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [S=1]
RewriteCond %{ENV:dothtml} ^true$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html

If your server receives a request for "/path/to/foo.html", it will first
check to see if a file "/path/to/foo.php" exists. If so, it serves up the
PHP file, otherwise the HTML file gets sent out.

If you're not on an Apache server, then you might be stuck. Ask your hosting
company what your options are.

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[Ciaran]

You have two options, both involve messing around with your Apache
config.

The first is to include a rewrite rule in the config that is something
like the following:
RewriteRule ^(.*)[.]html$ $1.php [L,QSA]
Which redirects all requests for foo.htm to foo.php

The second is to tell Apache to process .html files as PHP. Find the
following line in your apache conf:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
And change it to:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html

Note that this would mean all .html files are run through the PHP
engine, which will probably increase the load on your server. You can
get fancier and restrict the rule by directory, if that helps.

-Ciaran

[Toby Inkster]

IWT wrote:

www.abc.com/123.php the user would be able to access this via
www.abc.com/123.html.

Better still, redirect both of those URLs to:

www.abc.com/123

which might be PHP now, but after a future site revision might become a
PDF file, or perhaps a JSP script.

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