How to Redirect .php pages to .html page? How to continue sa

[Rohit_Malhotra]

Hi,

I am planing to change our .php pages in .html pages. I have used a simple code :
<?php
header("location:http://www.________.com/____.html");
exit;
?> to redirect my .php page. I mentioned following code at the top of the .php page and successfull redirected.
But after this process I lost my Google Page Rank. When I search some tutorial regarding this problem, I found to make some changings with .htaccess file, and .htaccess file, I can see in Root folder on sever but I did'nt get .htaccess file in root directory. Now How can we create a .htaccess file and How will I configured this with redirection of Google Page Rank. What will be the proper step by step process to use 301 Redirection method and to get our Google page Rank Back?

[jestep]

Here is what I do if you're just redirecting to a new page.

<?PHP 
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); 
header ('Location: http://www.newsite.com/newpage.html'); 
exit (); ?>

Make sure you have the 301 message for google. Page rank is not immediate, but it should be transfered along with any backlinks in an update or two.

[osnet]

Originally Posted by Rohit_Malhotra

What will be the proper step by step process to use 301 Redirection method and to get our Google page Rank Back?

I know 301 redirects are preferred over some other types of redirects like javascript & meta redirects.

I recommend using mod_rewrite and a proxy redirect. This preserves PR without having redundant files etc.

# -Rewrite Rules
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/$ /page.php?p=home [P,L]
RewriteRule ^index\.html /page.php?p=home [P,L]
RewriteRule ^index\.htm /page.php?p=home [P,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ /page.php?p=$1 [P,L]

I had the opposite problem, alot of legacy html content, and I wanted it to be PHP pages, so the navigation & presentation could be optimized and consistent.

Please post your php URLs and someone may be able to assist further. blank out the domain name if you wish, but leave rest of it.

Cheers!
-John

[Rohit_Malhotra]

Thanks All,

I have done what I wants with. Good Help. But one more thing which I want to Discuss If I use Moved Permanently In my Redirect code, that means I am moving my page permanently. But my question is, is there any way to Get back same process after Permanently Moving. I mean if I dont want to move my page permanently, can i Remove this process? I have moved my php page permanently but now I dont want to move that perticular page. What shuld I do?

Thanks
Rohit