Transitioning from .html to .php

[alandomixwell]

I'm currently in the process changing my existing website http://motor-fx.net/ from html to php. After renaming my pages it came to my attention that people couldn't access my site anymore because it was still being referenced as motor-fx.net/index.html instead of motor-fx.net/index.php. I was thinking of starting from scratch but I just got indexed by google (yay*). Can anyone offer some guidance on how to tackle this situation. I have no idea how to go about this transition. Should I set up redirects for now? Any advice would be greatly appreciated...

[AdRock]

Does your server support php?

[alandomixwell]

Yes it does AdRock I'm on a Hostgator Shared plan. Doing a little research I think I found a solution to this by placing the following code in .htaccess:

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AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html

So if anyone is changing from static html to php this might help.

[simonb]

you can do that in your cpanel as well.

[alexgeek]

Originally Posted by alandomixwell

Yes it does AdRock I'm on a Hostgator Shared plan. Doing a little research I think I found a solution to this by placing the following code in .htaccess:

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AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html

So if anyone is changing from static html to php this might help.

Thanks! This is going in my notebook