.html vs .php3

Anon

Good Evening,

The problem I'm having is this : I have several hundred pages on my web site which are currently static pages. I'm porting my data to a database, and will now have each page dynamically generated via a SQL query using PHP.

I've gotten the page to work when I use a .php3 extension on the file. However, if I change it to a .html extension, it no longer works. I have edited the mime.types file on my web server to reflect the following :

application/x-httpd-php3 php3 php htm html

I'm obviously mission something important here. Is there a different way to construct a page that uses PHP when the the extension ends in .html vs .php3? I'd like to be able to make this work, otherwise I have to redirect all my .html pages to hit the new .php3 page, which would be a pain (I have lots of sites linked to my current pages). I know this works when using .html vs .shtml for SSI, and I'm sure what I'm trying to do works as well...I'm just not sure what I'm missing.

If you need the complete code of my page, please let me know and I'll post it.

Thanks,

Mark

matjaz

i understand that you are trying to tell apache to execute htmls... no idea why it doesnt work that way, i havent tried it.

but i think you should go with .php extensions... what if you one day move the site somewhere else? no one will let you use .html as .php pages.

i would delete current site, make all files .php and add a 404 error handler. you just add one line to .htaccess and tell it to redirect to your script [handler] in case it doesnt find a .html page it is looking for. your script then redirects it to a new .php page. its so simple 🙂

Matjaz

robdawgs

I am a web designer, just getting into this Unix command line stuff. I want to change my site to .php also so I can do mass updates using includes, instead of the Dreamweaver Templates i am using now. what exactly would the 404 error handler look like in the .htaccess file? also, my site is hosted by a friendly, but cautious company. Can they make this change to my directory only?

Is there another solution I am missing so I don't lose my outside links, bookmarks and search engine index positions if i switch to .php?