Question

I have a php site. For all of the page links I use foo.htm, and internally rewrite this to foo.php with .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ $1.php [NC,L]

This works great – however, it still allows you to use the foo.php url. I would like to 301 redirect foo.php to foo.htm to prevent any old foo.php search engine results from hanging around and rewrite the foo.htm url internally to foo.php

I can’t figure out how to do this without creating a loop.

Answer 1

Put this code in your .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\s(.+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1.htm [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ /$1.php [L,NC]