Hiding .php File Extension?

Anon

Is there any way to hide the file extension of PHP pages? Suppose, instead of .php, it comes up as .html but still functions like PHP. I'm just wondering because I have created an entire site with PHP but I've yet to see any other sites where every page listed is a .php page, except maybe this site. Is there a way? Is it plausible? Waste of time? Thanx.

Anon

Most web servers can be configured to handle .html files using php. This will, however, put additional strain on the server when it is just serving up static html pages. Is the .php extension so bad?

xjeffx wrote:

Anon

Some robots do not like "dynamic" extension such as .php or .jsp. Hiding the extension is not a waste of time.
Try mod_rewrite!

php4hosting

The way round it is to setup the parsing of .html files as php but limit it to one directory. That way other users/directorys are not effected. Or setup .html as PHP and .htm as text so that you can mix and match without the extra load

Darren
http://www.php4hosting.com

Anon

Yeah, I use to set php to parse .html for past two years. But it seems to me, at least that's what I had, PHP4 doesn't parse .html

And now I can't force php3 3.0.18 to parse .html? It's very weird.

Anon

This topic kills me. Everyone want's you to rename all your files to .html or take off the file extension altogether. I've yet to see a tangible solution other than "try mod_rewrite!!!". I feel for you, xjeffx, nobody seems to understand the question, or have a clean solution.