New file extension htaccess redirect

New File Extension htaccess redirect

If you change all or some file extensions on your web site, for example from .asp to .php or from .html to .php you probably want to redirect your visitors to the new pages with new extensions.

If so you need to add the following code to your htaccess:

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

The code example above will redirect all requests for html files/pages to the corresponding php extension pages/files. This means your visitors will automatically be redirected to domain.com/home.php instead of domain.com/home.html.

301 means you redirect the page permanently. If it is a temporary redirect (that is a 302 redirect), remove 301 from the code.

The code will then look like this:

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

See more examples of htaccess redirects in the menu on the left or below.