.htaccess how to rewrite .php pages to .htm pages

Hello, buddies .

Question 1:
As the title above
How can I rewrite .php pages to .htm pages.
How can I rewrite .php pages to .html pages.
(Other requirement:after rewriting, visitors can't visit original php pages or 404 error if visitors try to visit the original php page.)

Question 2:
If there is following code in index.php
<?php
require_once('foot.php' );
?>
After rewrite, do I have to change the code to
<?php
require_once('foot.html' );
?>

I am a newbie in .htaccess rules .
Thanks for your help.

 

You can rename all your .php to .html and/or .htm then add the appropriate handler to .htaccess, on our servers the following works:

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .htm .html

Code (markup):

Just ask your host for the information.

If you rename .php to .html then yes you need to update the requires and includes.

My advice just try a test before swapping the whole site.

 

I think using .htaccess can solve the problem .
It doesn't get involved with the host setting .
How to write the .htaccess rules ?

 

What I gave you just goes in .htaccess

 

hi
try this in .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\.html$ /$1.php


It will work

Regards

Alex

 

You need to add another rule to 404 the PHP files which is why I think it's going to be easier to just treat .html as PHP