[SOLVED] .html mask

[R0bb0b]

Sometimes I will come across a site with html pages that are clearly developed with php.  For example, if you go to daniweb, their forums have an html extension in the address bar but the data is clearly pulled from a database on the fly.

 

Here is the header info:

Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:25:31 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6

Cache-Control: private

Pragma: private

Keep-Alive: timeout=10, max=400

Connection: Keep-Alive

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

 

200 OK

 

They are using php 5.1.6 and I'm sure this is a php page masked to be html.  How is this done, mod rewrite or is there another trick to it?

[Sangha-08]

Its pretty easy to be honest... heres what I use in my .htaccess

 

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php $1.html

[R0bb0b]

OK, another question.  does this fool search engines or is it a waste of time.

[Sangha-08]

OK, another question.  does this fool search engines or is it a waste of time.

 

if this was a waste of time then why would anybody use it lol

 

yes, it works great and manages to fool search engines

[R0bb0b]

OK, another question.  does this fool search engines or is it a waste of time.

 

if this was a waste of time then why would anybody use it lol

 

yes, it works great and manages to fool search engines

True.  Cool thx.

[Sangha-08]

Could you please mark this topic as solved, thanks