htaccess php html

[ggalan]

ive tried adding a htaccess file such as

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

so that i can keep my file extension html. however it does not work. and i read this in a similar post

"SSI enabling is causing the problem. We also tested this using 2 external servers outside our network, one we disabled SSI and it worked and the second was a server with php loaded as an apache module with SSI enabled and it worked.
So we concluded that since PHP is loaded as a cgi and SSI is enabled then parsing PHP within an HTML file will not work."

does anyone know of a workaround?

thank you

[traq]

This doesn't exactly address your specific question, but I'm wondering why you would want to keep your .html extensions. If you're using php code on your pages, why not change the extensions to .php? And, since you're using .htaccess already, you can use rewrite rules to redirect any .html requests to .php files (to accommodate old bookmarks, for example):

RewriteRule ^(.*)?\.html$ $1.php [NC,L]

Edit: corrected the regex. see my post below.

[ggalan]

i want to keep the extension html because the site is currently in that format and changing it would have an effect on search seo

[ggalan]

i placed this inside htaccess but it does not redirect html extensions to php

RewriteRule ^[(.*)].html$ $1.php [NC,L]

[traq]

I'm sorry, I made a few typos:

RewriteRule ^(.*)?\.html$ $1.php [NC,L]

1. NO square brackets.
2. ESCAPE (backslash) the dot.
3. add a ? (ungreedy pattern match) after (.*)
In addition, you must have mod-rewrite enabled. You may have to do this by placing the line RewriteEngine on at the top of your .htaccess file.
This kind of redirect should not have any effect on your SEO. The url shown in the address bar will not change (e.g., it will still read "http://www.example.com/page.html", even though it's showing the user "page.php") because the redirect is done server-side. However, this means that ALL requests for .html pages will be served their .php equivalents, even if there isn't one... which could result in 404 errors. The easiest solution would be to rename ALL your pages with the .php extension.

[ggalan]

so this is my htaccess file

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [NC,L]

here is a test link: http://www.2020proj.com/notes/htmlphp/films.php
it still does not work

[ggalan]

its linking but getting an error

[traq]

did you put the question mark? it works on my server: http://www.custom-anything.com/htacc.../redirect.html (<-- actually a .php file)

[ggalan]

where do i put the '?' mark

[traq]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)?\.html$ $1.php [NC,L]