Changing extensions : .HTML ---> .SHTML

Hey Everyone...

I decided to make includes of files as header, footer and a menu .
Now- I relized I need to change all my extensions into SHTML otherwise, it's not going to help.

Few questions:

1.What the best way to do it ? Is it possible to make include-files without changing the the extension (I saw the include file only after I change the extention to .shtml) maybe there is another way?

2. I am afraid that will heart my rank in google. Is it going to make any changes in search engines?

Thanks in advance,

Guy.

 

you actually have a couple options.

i did the same thing about 8 months ago and added this to my .htaccess file

AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .html .htm
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

but a couple months ago i realized i would have more flexibility with parsing .htm as php rather than .shtml so i replaced the above with

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

 

Right on Kaptain. cdx, if you do however choose to change the extentions, (not really needed) but if you do, make sure you use a mod_rewrite to 301 redirect your old urls to the new ones to avoid negative SE karma.

 

I wouldn't change extensions. If all of your files are going to be .shtml, you might as well process all .html files as .shtml. You can also use the XBitHack directive if you want only some .html files contain SSI statements:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_include.html#xbithack

J.D.