Redirecting index.php to index.html

[tokio]

I tried it using .htaccess, but it didnt work. here is the code below.

PHP Code:


RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET .*/website.(php|html) HTTP
RewriteRule ^(.*)website.(php|html)$ /$1 [R=301,L] 


Do anyone have any suggestions for doing this in php? The thing im confused about regarding redirecting a .php file to an .html file, is do i only need to write an .php file, and the contents in it will redirect to index.html, or should both files contain identical information? Thanks.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

I think we need to know why you want to redirect to index.html from index.php. There may be better or other ways to do what you want.

[tokio]

Originally Posted by _Aerospace_Eng_

I think we need to know why you want to redirect to index.html from index.php. There may be better or other ways to do what you want.

Sure, i dont like seeing the .php extensions. I want all of my pages to just be in either .html or .com.

[michaelespinosa]

.htaccess should work easily.

Redirect 301 /index.php http://www.yoursite.com/index.html

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

Originally Posted by tokio

Sure, i dont like seeing the .php extensions. I want all of my pages to just be in either .html or .com.

But you still want to use php in your files? If that is the case then you need to make your server serve up html files as php files.

Read this

http://www.desilva.biz/php/phpinhtml.html

That should work. Now you can use .html but you can still use .php in them. Can I ask why you want this though? I don't see the problem with using .php

[tokio]

@ michael: Thanks, but i was looking for more of an automated approach.

@eng: Thanks for that. Good question by the way, its more for marketing purposes, as i think most people visiting a site and dont could would remember a .html url as opposed to a .php.

[zellfaze]

That makes complete sense. From a security point of view it is useful too. The less they know about how the site runs the better.