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Is it doable?
It would be OK even if I have to rewrite all .html requests.
Jim
There would be no second access except on the server itself. The page links to other pages/sites and has no frames.
The first part should be ok, file.htm to file.php, but I would like the output name to remain the same, file.htm in browser window.
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html
even adding this linr didn't help:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php htm php
I see a lot of similar problems already discussed here.
Anyone found a solution?
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ([^.]+)\.html /$1.php [L]
Will serve the php to equal html URL... No need to parse all html files as php, just serve the php information to the html location.
Justin
No, a parser was exactly what I needed.
I have some old but well ranked .htm pages which should be rewritten using php.
Insted of renaming them all to .php I wanted the names to remain the same.
This did the trick:
RemoveHandler .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm
...but it depends on server settings, some won't allow this, reason unknown.
In this way I made only .htm files to be parsed to php, .html remained intact.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ([^.]+)\.html? /$1.php [L]
Justin
? = 0 or 1 of the characters or set of characters immediately preceding it.
Be aware that if your site gets a lot of traffic, and a good portion of the pages are .htm files, this can place considerable load on the webserver. Your solution requires the PHP engine to parse through .htm files unnecessarily (in some cases), where the Rewrite solution does not. Just food for thought.
Chad
Yes. I am aware of eventual extra load on server. That's why I made parsing for .htm files only.
My old files are all .htm so in the future I will make all php files with .htm extension, while regular HTML files will keep .html extension and will be not parsed to the PHP processing.
Yes it will. When doing a rewrite like that, it changes the file that the server provides, but not the way it is provided. PHP, Coldfusion, etc., files are still processed as they would be normally. It is also transparent to the browser/user.
Chad
Just tried your code and it really worked as promissed. :)
The only thing with this is that I have to rename all files into .php .
Can this be somehow escaped?
You might look in the library for a more detailed summary, or the two recent posts I made, part 1 and part 2 of mod rewrite.
Justin
One site has a lot of rewrite rules. When I add this one from above the system goes seemingly into a loop.
What could be wrong here?:
######################################################
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.?* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*
RewriteEngine on
#www to root
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [mysite.com...] [R=301,L]
#404 handling
ErrorDocument 404 [mysite.com...]
#pdf>htm
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.pdf$ [mysite.com...] [R=301,L]
#html>php
RewriteRule ([^.]+)\.html /$1.php [L]
The comment says #pdf>htm, but in fact, you are rewriting pdf->html
If the comment is wrong, then you'll need a more-advanced code method; See [webmasterworld.com...] msg#6
Jim
Accidentaly, I forgot to make file1.php which should be called with file1.htm and 404 was triggered.
This is in 404red.html:
######################################################
<HTML>
<head>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="3; URL=http://mysite.com/" target="_blank">
</head>
<body><H3>We are sorry, blah blah blah</h3>
</body>
</HTML>
#####################################################
Oh boy, should I change default index extension?
The problem was somewhere else; my home page use frames and one of the called files was not renamed into .php which sent 404 into the loop .
Finally got it straight.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/403\.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/404red\.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/410red\.html$
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.html /$1.php [L]
Jim
