mod_rewrite

maxtech

1- I have 2 file index1.php and index2.php, index1.php has a hyper link like <a href="index2.php">Click here</a>, after clicking on this the user is transfered to index2.php, i want that the user to view index2.html in the web page & also in the address bar the address should be looked index2.html instead index2.php

2- I have my site http://localhost/mysite/ and i have the main page for this index.php,
i want that whenever a user approaches to my site, the main page index.php should be displayed with displaying address http://localhost/mysite/index.html rather than http://localhost/mysite/index.php.

What would be the rewriteconditions & rewriterules for these and where shld i place the .htaccess file. All my files will be under http://localhost/mysite/

Naito

I'm not sure on the specifics of changing the page displayed from php to html, however I might be able to offer some pointers. Is there a reason you need the first and second pages displayed to be .php's?

One option that would work for anyone who has a frames enabled browser (most users now days) would be to create an index.html that had a frame with index.php in it. The page displayed then would be index.html. The only downside to that is that they would be able to view the source and see the location of the actual php page and that those rare browsers without frames would have to be handeled in some other way. (Possibly being told to get a browser that does have frames from any of the several multi-platform projects.)

FatalError

In index2.php, put something like this at the beginning:

<?php
header('Location: index2.html');
exit;
?>

If you are looking for mod_rewrite (specifically), then this is the wrong forum. 😛

Also, I don't see why you need to do this...can you explain a bit what you are getting out of this? I don't see a need for any of this personally...but it might be something with the website.