Can I Output PHP Pages As HTML Pages?

Volitics

Does anyone know how I can get PHP output pages to display as *.html pages?

The reason that I ask is that search engines (specifically Google, I think) don't like to index pages that end in *.php

I use templates and an HTML class to output my pages. For example, a page called "OutputPage.php" can call the HTML class and the template to output a page - but the page displays as "OutputPage.php" in the browser.

I know that a page has to have the php suffix in order for the server to recognize the script as a PHP script.

I would appreciate any information that anyone could provide.

Thanks.

LordShryku

You can configure Apache to recognise .html pages as php using AddType
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

Though, Google indexes php pages. Don't know where you heard otherwise....

leatherback

-> WHY do you think/say that searchengines don't index .php pages?

-> Any filetype can be compiled as PhP. It is a server setting which decides which pages are processed by a php compiler.

-> You can save your pages and rebuilt your site with html extention. but htat seems to me a little silly. Then just build the site using html.

Volitics

LordShryku, leatherback,

Thank you for responding to my problem.

All I have is just a shared hosting. I'm not sure if they will let me configure Apache.

What I'm doing is developing a small Internet local news web site. I'm wanting news stories that are a few months old to still be available to Google.

I guess what I need to do is have one or more pages on my hosting that outputs a link to all of the older articles. That way when Google crawls my site there will be a page (or pages) with links or URLs to all of the news articles.

Thanks again for the help.

weekender

two post-resolving points for you

you can put that apache directive in a .htaccess file in the root of your web server, and it will have the same effect
google definately DOES index .php pages (i know cause mine are indexed). Kind of makes reconfiguring apache a moot point

Volitics

weekender,

Thank you for the information. I appreciate the help.

That's got me off to a good start on solving this problem. Hopefully, it'll be a few days before I get stumped again.

Volitics

Skyld

Theres another way you can do it in IIS.
If you're using the PHP CGI, if you go into the MIME types, and then change the file extension you want to hide to point to the php.exe (normally in C:\PHP) and it'll work. Yet thats only any use if you're using the CGI...