aaron, ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< > From: Aaron Johnson > > FYI you could/can have ColdFusion & ASP parse .htm > or.html files on IIS. I'm not sure how you do this on > Apache, although I'd be interested to know. On IIS: > > start --> programs --> wherever Internet Service Manager > is --> yourwebsite.com (right click) --> properties --> > home directory --> configuration --> add .html or .html > as an application mapping and point that extension to > the asp.dll (for asp) or the iscf.dll (for CF). Then > rename your .asp or .cfm pages as .htm or .html and > you'll have .htm or .html pages parsed by the > appropriate app server. ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< i'd like to reiterate what morgan already said -- ew. all this monkeying around with file extensions is sort of missing the better solution -- no file extensions at all. build the site/applications so all pages appear to sit at the root of directories and the paths end in a slash. now you're completely platform/file extension agnostic. here's a fun one: http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.asp http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.aspx http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.borg http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.cfm http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.css http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.exe http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.gif http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.html http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.jeff http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.jpg http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.js http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.jsp http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.php http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.png http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.sql http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.swf http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.wml http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.xml http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/index.zip http://evolt.org/user/jeff/15/ so, tell me, what language is the evolt.org cms written in? you can't tell from the url can you? neither can the search engine. heck, that's a completely dynamic url to a database driven page. does the search engine know that? no, it thinks it's looking at a directory structure. so, before you compromise your server's performance, take a look at solutions that already exist. good luck, .jeff http://evolt.org/ jeff at members.evolt.org http://members.evolt.org/jeff/