[ksandeep]

Hi Friends

I have a website built in PHP & i changed some of PHP pages to .html ext. using URL Rewriting. everything working fine but now i can access my site using .php as well as .html ext. which is not good for SEO

this is my rule

[PHPNET=""]
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^Testimonials/testimonials.html$ Testimonials/testimonials.php
[/PHPNET]

to 301 redirect my php page to html i add following code but it not working please help


[PHPNET=""]Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^Testimonials/testimonials.php$ Testimonials/testimonials.html[R=301,QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^Testimonials/testimonials.html$ Testimonials/testimonials.php
[/PHPNET]

[requinix]

Don't bother with the URL rewriting: just make the files actual .html files and then use

SetHandler application/x-httpd-php .html

to make them execute as PHP scripts.

[ksandeep]

Originally Posted by requinix

Don't bother with the URL rewriting: just make the files actual .html files and then use

SetHandler application/x-httpd-php .html

to make them execute as PHP scripts.

thanks for reply.

i am new with this stuff. can you please explain in more details whet changes i required & how i include this in htaccess

[requinix]

Put that SetHandler thing in the .htaccess instead of the URL rewriting parts. Then rename your .php files to .html.

[ksandeep]

Originally Posted by requinix

Put that SetHandler thing in the .htaccess instead of the URL rewriting parts. Then rename your .php files to .html.

thanks for quick reply.

but i think this is not helpful for us.

i have a website which previously running with .php & query string. now using url re-writing we change all PHP pages to HTML as per requirement. now website can be access from both URL & our SEO guys says that its not good for website & we need to redirect all PHp pages to .html pages

[requinix]

You're changing all your URLs. Your SEO will be screwy for a while.

Try

RewriteEngine on

# 1. Redirect .php to .html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.php$
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1.html [L,R=301]

# 2. Rewrite .html to .php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (.*)\.html$
RewriteCond %1.php -f
RewriteRule ^ %1.php [L]

Note that you still need to fix all your links and forms and whatever to use *.html.