htaccess problem

[computerzworld]

Hello,
I am having one htaccess rule which is converting all .html extensions to .php & I want to exclude some .html files from it. Here is the rule.

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm $1.php [nc]

This will convert all the .html files resides in the folder to .php but lets say i want to exclude the file named as contactus.htm but according to this rule it will convert it to contactus.php that I don't want. So is there any rule in htaccess so that I can make a list of excluded files and put them together in order to keep them as .htm? Please help me. Thanks in advance.

[bradgrafelman]

Try this instead:

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !/w.htm$
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm $1.php [nc]

Also, if you had any old .html files, you could also redirect both .htm and .html using one pattern:

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !/w.htm$
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html? $1.php [nc]

Finally, if anyone has the old URL bookmarked (or if search engines are still hitting it), you should set the proper HTTP status code to indicate that the old URL is no longer valid:

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !/w.htm$
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm $1.php [nc,R=permanent]

(replace permanent with 301 if not using Apache 2.0+).