301 Redirect

[Steve202]

Hi guys,

When I designed my original website, I used purely html but over the next couple of weeks I'm going be converting it over to php. Would it be possible to redirect users that come on the html page to the php version of the page using 301 redirects?

So, if the users comes in on contact.html it automatically directs them to contact.php.

Cheers
Steve

 

[That Guy]

In your .htaccess file add this:

[FONT=verdana][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000000]RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase / 
RewriteRule ^/(.*)\.[B]html[/B]$ /$1.[B]php[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

Should work as long as all the file names stay the same. For example:

contact.html will need to be contact.php


Let me know if it works

 

[Steve202]

Thanks buddy. I'll test it out when I get back to the workshop tomorrow.

 

[KM-Tiger]

If you need to tweak around with mod_rewrite, there is a good introduction here:

http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Making_prettier_URLs_with_mod_rewrite

a quick reference (think the site is a member here):

http://semlabs.co.uk/sandbox/journal/mod_rewrite_reference.html

and the Apache documentation:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

It's both very powerful and very easy to get wrong!

 

[bluecm]

Good resource here - http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

 

[Steve202]

Thanks for the info guys

 

[JMCDesigner]

Ahem, as a little side note for other viewers, htaccess files only work on linux servers. Not windows

 

[J-Wholesale]

If I were you, I'd do the reverse: set up a rewrite rule so that your php pages present as html. This way your URLs won't change at all, and you won't be tying yourself to php in the future.

 

[holeary]

Yes that should work once the site is set up in PHP and the server is configured to run php. you can either do redirect through php code or through the HTaccess file.

 

[edmondscommerce]

If I were you, I'd do the reverse: set up a rewrite rule so that your php pages present as html. This way your URLs won't change at all, and you won't be tying yourself to php in the future.

this is the best idea

you can also adjust apache to parse html files for php as well if you want

Edit /etc/httpd/httpd.conf. Look for a line that says


AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .phtml

Add ".html" to that line.

Restart the server.