[SOLVED] htaccess - make html extension files to be interpreted with php interpreter

[ultrasound0000]

Hi folks,

 

I recently changed my site from html to php. For SEO purposes (can't lose page rankings by doing 301 redirects), I want to keep all my files as html for the time being.

 

Is there a way to configure Apache to interpret the html pages with the php interpreter? Any idea how this is done, htaccess maybe?

 

Also, any drawbacks to this approach?

[drisate]

I am not a htacess pro, but yu can try something like this

RewriteRule ^example\.html$ example.php

[souless87]

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .html

 

OR

 

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html

[ultrasound0000]

Thanks Souless87 for the info.  I tried your code on my htaccess file but for some reason not getting it to run as PHP.  Am I missing something?  I even removed everything else on my htaccess and left just this line of code but still when I go to an html file that has PHP code in, it doesn't work (browser only displays html).

[PFMaBiSmAd]

It should be -

 

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

[ultrasound0000]

@Souless87:  Nevermind, it actually worked with the AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html code that you provided.  I found out my webhost (dreamhost), was re-writing my htaccess file each time.

 

@PFMaBISmAd:  what is the difference between Addtype and AddHandler in this case?  I got it to work with AddHandler, but just curious