.htaccess mod_rewrite help

[rembrandt]

I'm pretty new to the whole .htaccess file so I was wondering how would I write the code if I just wanted to change files from www.mydomain.com/filename.php to www.mydomain.com/filename.html

 

[J-Tag]

Why is it that you want to do this?
There is no benefit do doing so that I can imagine.

That said:

RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.php$ http://www.example.com$1.html

to have it 301 from .php to html

or

[/FONT]RemoveHandler .html .htm[FONT=monospace]
[/FONT]AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

to have it parse .htm and .html files as PHP

 

[rembrandt]

The reason I'm asking is because if a site has been done as a static site and then needs to be dynamic using php, and some of the pages are already indexed for SEO, the SERP's links won't be broken.

 

[blindpete]

I would use J-Tag's option 2. I did the same thing some years ago... the client had good links all over and didn't want to loose them.