Can a '.html' page be replaced by '.html.php' page via RewriteRule?

sherry

Hello.

To clarify, I'm using a software that formats the look of the site using .html pages. I'd like to add PHP code to that page but of course, it is not of the right page type.

What I was wondering is...

Could I create a duplicate of that '.html' page, rename it to e.g. '.html.php' and make the revisions and then just create a RewriteRule that redirects the '.html' page to the '.html.php' without generating an error?

The alternative and undesired way of doing it would be to rename the original page to '.html.php' and find and revise ALL of the routines that call that page. That would create a revision nightmare especially upon upgrading the software.

Thanks in advance.

nemonoman

Alternatively you can tell apache to process pages listed as .html just like PHP. Change httpd.conf file. Add this line.

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

restart apache.

sherry

Thanks for your reply.

I don't have that 'root' access.

bradgrafelman

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^mypage\.html$ mypage.html.php

Also note that if you wanted to simply call it "mypage.php" you could do that as well.

sherry

Cool.

I just wanted to use that name to stay consistent with their nomenclature so that the filename would stick out when glancing through the directory.

Thanks folks for your replies. This is GREAT!

sherry

Hello again.

I marked this thread 'RESOLVED' a bit too soon.

I tried the RewriteRule below...

bradgrafelman wrote:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^mypage\.html$ mypage.html.php
Also note that if you wanted to simply call it "mypage.php" you could do that as well.

The page didn't redirect. I don't know why...

Any ideas?

Thanks again.

bradgrafelman

Sorry if this sounds condescending, but just want to cover all of the bases...

Did you put this code in an .htaccess file?
Is the .htaccess file in the same directory as the script?
Is that the actual code you tried? IOW, you created a file called mypage.html.php and tried to access it via mypage.html ?
What do you mean it "didn't redirect" ? Did you get a 404 error? 500? ...?

sherry

Thanks for your reply.

Don't worry, you're not sounding condescending - those are obvious questions.

1) & 2) the statements are in the .htaccess file in the top level of that software's directory.
3) RewriteRule ^{/sub/dir/path/leading/to/page.html$} /sub/dir/path/leading/to/page.html.php [L]

Both files are in the same directory about 4 levels below root of that software. In the example above, consider the '/sub' part to represent the 1st level below the top level of that software's directory.

I tried that statement with and without the leading '/' since when the software is loaded, if it doesn't contain the slash after the directory name, it is automatically added.

4) I used the 'redirect' terminology for descriptive-purposes only. There was no error; no nothing. It's like it didn't find the original file in the first place so the RewriteRule appeared to be ignored.

Thanks again for your assistance.

bradgrafelman

Have you tried enabling the rewrite log?

sherry

Thanks for your reply, bradgrafelman.

The Apache logs showed no error.

Should the path begin at the 'usr' level?

Thanks.