changing page file

index changing from .htm to shtml

[chairwars]

I want to put in a script on my index page which will require the file extension changing from .htm to .shtml
Will this cause any immediate problems? (Links to the site, search engines?)

[jatar_k]

Your old page will 404.

You will want to add a 301 redirect permanent to the new page so you dont lose the clicks to the old page. I assume you are adding some SSI, you could also look at handling SSI with the htm extension.

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[lorax]

You could also use htaccess to hand the .shtml version of the page to the browser whenever the .html page is requested.

[chairwars]

Thanks for the help. I think i'll set up a redirect.

[oilman]

if you're just changing the extension so you can parse for ssi you may want to check if you can just add htm to the list of pages to parse for ssi - then you don't have to change anything. It's one line into your htaccess and you don't have to worry about the SEs at all:

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .htm .html

[chairwars]

yes i am wanting to change so that i can parse for ssi. I modified the htaccess and it works fine now. Thanks.