[thelist] Efficient Redirect: html to php

[live4bacon at optonline.net]

well how 'bout ya!

Thanks for turning me around!

for the sake of general knowledge, I would be interested in other solutions if anyone cares to share.

(Yarrrr, should have posed this question before I changed all the links on me test site!!)
JP



----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Schrantz <scotts at rci-nv.com>
Date: Monday, March 29, 2004 7:00 pm
Subject: RE: [thelist] Efficient Redirect: html to php

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: live4bacon at optonline.net [live4bacon at optonline.net]
> 
> > I am looking to take an established website (ie indexed by 
> > the major search engines w/ great to decent rankings) which 
> > is made up entirely of .html pages and convert it to .php pages.
> > 
> > And I am not so sure that htaccess redirects are the most 
> > efficient way to get this done.  
> > 
> > Can you all enlighten me on the most efficient way to 
> > accomplish this move! Which would not affect my search engine 
> > results and be transparent to the visitor coming from old 
> > links/bookmarks.
> 
> You're looking at it backwards. Don't change the file extensions, 
> change Apache so it looks in .html files for PHP code.
> 
> Add this to .htaccess:
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html
> 
> That way, the file extentions don't have to change, so bookmarks 
> and search engines won't be affected a bit.
> 
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