redirect all .html extensions to .php

Question

I want to update all the pages on a website to use include for the footer and header. So I have to change a lot of .html pages to .php.

So i\'m looking for a way to

Answer 1

In your apache httpd.conf file you can add

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

to make .html files go through the php parser before they are served to the user. You can also add this directive to your .htaccess file. The second method may not work depending on how your host is setup.