PHP Forum

**Knifeman** · 11-05-2004, 06:31 PM

I have had a strictly html site for a couple years. I have now discovered PHP. I have created a header.htm file that contains my site navigation bar. I want to put this on all my main category pages so when my menu changes, I can change one file and not the code on every page. Unfortunatly I found out after a couple hours of trying that I have to rename all my pages **.PHP for the code to work. I am sure a lot of people have bookmarked my **.html pages. Does anyone have a suggestion as to implementing the new php pages without losing a bunch of customers?

**pushedtomb** · 11-05-2004, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knifeman

I have had a strictly html site for a couple years. I have now discovered PHP. I have created a header.htm file that contains my site navigation bar. I want to put this on all my main category pages so when my menu changes, I can change one file and not the code on every page. Unfortunatly I found out after a couple hours of trying that I have to rename all my pages **.PHP for the code to work. I am sure a lot of people have bookmarked my **.html pages. Does anyone have a suggestion as to implementing the new php pages without losing a bunch of customers?

you could keep your existing pages but redirect them to the new .php pages.. but that is a really simple way of doing it, im sure that someone else on here will give you a better answer but only trying to help

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh"
content="5;url=http://www.yoururl.com">
</head>
<body>
<p>
<a href="http://www.whatever.com">http://www.whatever.com</a>
</p>
<p>
You will be redirected to the new address in # seconds.
</p>
<p>
If you see this message for more than "How long you want, usually 5" seconds, please click on the link above!
</p>
</body>
</html>

hope this helps

**Knifeman** · 11-05-2004, 07:51 PM

That is not a bad idea. I could add some text about updating their bookmarks and leave the old pages online for a few months. THANKS!

**vivekar** · 11-05-2004, 08:00 PM

You can also use .htaccess modrewrite.

Add the below code in a file named as .htaccess and upload it after necessary changes.
backup you old .htaccess file from your server.

You should use -al params in your ftp to see the hidden files in your server.

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/oldurl.html
RewriteRule ^(.*) /newurl.php   [L]

**Knifeman** · 11-05-2004, 08:21 PM

That rewrite works well. Is there a limit to the number of html pages I can list? If I list more than one, do I repeat the entire code or just add mor e old and new urls?

**vivekar** · 11-06-2004, 07:55 PM

What I do is like this

PHP Code:


			
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$1.html  [F]

RewriteRule ^(.*) /$1.php   [L]

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