Question

I am a newbie in this department.I have following folder structure
root
root\html
root\html\html

the root\html\html has our old website with a bunch of pages in .html form. The \html has our new website with .htm extension

I want to have a .htaccess in the root/html/html which basically any call to a file.html to root/html/file.htm

so http://www.example.com/html/file.html will become http://www.example.com/file.htm

Answer 1

I think this:

RewriteRule ^/html/(.*)\.html$ /$1.htm [R]

should do what you want.

If you don’t want to redirect (if you don’t want the address in the browser’s address bar to change) just take the [R] out.