.htaccess to ADD .php file extensions

[jjny]

This is sort of the opposite of what was discussed here:

http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.p...ht=rewrite+php

I used a settings option in my web site’s software (Sunshop) to make our site search friendly with Google and other search engines. For example, rather than displaying "item&id=3780&prevaction=pricelist", it displays "item/id/3780/prevaction/pricelist/".

I’d like to use TSEP search engine to index my site for searching. It requires file extensions before it will index the contents of a page. I need it to index the contents of my web site which displays listing details such as Title, Author, Publisher, etc. from within links such as the one shown above.

I read that someone used mod_rewrite to make their site search friendly. Rather than displaying "item.php?id=5," for example, they did "item/5“. When using the TSEP search engine to index the site, they ran into a problem because this meant that each page was linked to without a file extension, and thus was not indexed.

In order to fix this, they changed their .htaccess file's mod_rewrite entries to the format of "item/5.php". Their site now displays as individual pages for each database entry which they say makes Google happy, and it also continues to have a file extension, which makes TSEP happy.


Can someone suggest some code I could enter in a .htaccess file for upload to the server so that my files like the above get a .php extension added to them? Also, information on where to place this .htaccess file relative to the location of htdocs/tsep/ and the files within the tsep folder?

[produke]

I am using a mod like this for the htaccess forum at askApache.com, where instead of
http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/index.php the url is http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/htaccess-vc1.html

and for http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/viewtopic.php?t=5 its
http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/ca...pires-vt5.html


This rewrites internally all .html files to .php

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*)\.html$ $1.php [L,T=application/x-httpd-php]

Forcing any files to be a certain type of file:

<Files index.php>
 ForceType application/x-httpd-php 
</Files>

Name php files .html

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

If using phpbb:

Remove SID for guests
phpBB SEO mod rewrites
Gives you an htaccess like this-

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^s/(.*)\.pl$ /cgi-bin/$1.php [L]


# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+/([^/]+\.html)$ /htaccess/index.php [R=301,L]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+-vc([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+-vf([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+-vf([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+-vt([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+-vt([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L]
# POST
RewriteRule ^htaccess/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^htaccess/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L]

[produke]

Originally Posted by keyplyr

Actually this parses .html files for php application, it doesn't change the name of .php files to .html.

Yes, I was assuming that he would be renaming the php files to html, at least, for that particular solution. I think I provided about 4 different ways to do this.

They would still be php files, but the extension would be .html, this is basically required if you want any SEO.

[produke]

Ooops, should read like this:

I am using a mod like this for the htaccess forum at htaccesselite.com, where instead of
http://www.htaccesselite.com/htaccess/index.php the url is http://www.htaccesselite.com/htaccess/htaccess-vc1.html

and for http://www.htaccesselite.com/htaccess/viewtopic.php?t=5 its
http://www.htaccesselite.com/htacces...pires-vt5.html


This rewrites internally all .html files to .php

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*)\.html$ $1.php [L,T=application/x-httpd-php]

Forcing any files to be a certain type of file:

<Files index.php>
 ForceType application/x-httpd-php 
</Files>

Name php files .html

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

If using phpbb:

Remove SID for guests
phpBB SEO mod rewrites
Gives you an htaccess like this-

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^s/(.*)\.pl$ /cgi-bin/$1.php [L]


# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+/([^/]+\.html)$ /htaccess/index.php [R=301,L]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+-vc([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+-vf([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+-vf([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+-vt([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^htaccess/.+-vt([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L]
# POST
RewriteRule ^htaccess/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^htaccess/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /htaccess/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L]

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