I've read a few tutorials but haven't had any luck.

If somebody types www.mysite.com/index.html, or even www.mysite.com/index.htm or www.mysite.com/index.shtm

into a browser I'd like to re-direct to

www.mysite.com/index.php

RewriteRule ^index.(.*)$ index.php [L]

this one really helps: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html

Originally Posted by transcendev

RewriteRule ^index.(.*)$ index.php [L]

Thanks a lot! That really works.
Now is there a way to create a kind of wild card setup so that it takes ANY file with an incorrect file extension and looks for the equivalent named file as .php
In other words do the same as above for EVERY file, not just the index file?

Sorry but I dont know regex expressions.

That would be a tough one.
Without getting too advanced, you could do things like:
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).htm$ $1.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).shtml$ $1.php [L]

Which would basically rewrite any .html, .htm or .shtml page as a .php page.

Originally Posted by transcendev

That would be a tough one.
Without getting too advanced, you could do things like:
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).htm$ $1.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).shtml$ $1.php [L]

Which would basically rewrite any .html, .htm or .shtml page as a .php page.

It's a partial success!
Works fine for url requests with a .html or .htm extension.
They get sent to the correct .php page just fine.

Doesn't work for .shtml requests.

Hmmmm.

Any ideas..anyone?

Are your pages .shtml or .shtm? Just noticed in your original example you said .shtm.

Originally Posted by transcendev

Are your pages .shtml or .shtm? Just noticed in your original example you said .shtm.

Actually neither. All my pages are .php

I guess that since .html, .htm, .shtml and .shtm are all valid file extensions I was looking for a way to re-direct ALL these file URL file requests to my .php files.