Using mod rewrite to move your site to PHP?

[kiowa_jackson]

I'm switching a .html site to php. I know you can use mod rewrite to change .html urls to .php...does anyone know the exact code you need to use? It's for a fairly high traffic site so I want to make sure I get it right...

 

thanks

[wildteen88]

mod rewrite is nothing to do with PHP. If your .html files contain PHP code then your PHP code wont be parsed, unless your server is configured to parse .html files as PHP. If your server is not configured to parse .html files as PHP then you'll have to configure your server to do so, if you don't want to convert your .html files to .php files. What you might be able to do is add the following line to a .htaccess file within your websites root:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

If your host allows you to change the servers configuration via .htaccess then you should find your .html files are now being parsed by PHP. You can test this by creating a simple test html file with the following code:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

When you run test.html you may find that you'll get a full of page of info about PHP's configuration/environment. If you don't then you'll need to convert your .html files to .php instead.

[kiowa_jackson]

Thanks for the reply. Actually, I'm changing all my pages to .php extension. However there are many links pointing to various pages with .html extension. What I want to do is simply make sure that anyone who clicks on a link pointing to /page.html gets redirected to /page.php