htm to php redirect

I have a website where my home page used to be mysite.com/index.htm. It has many links pointing to it.

Now I have created mysite.com/index.php which is to be the new home page.

What happens now? I will be getting some visitors to htm and some to php but the php page is my target page.

What do I do?

Thanks,

Jon

 

copy & paste below as the content of your index.htm

every time someone open index.htm, they will be redirected to index.php

 

Wouldn't I lose link juice that way? Isn't it better to do a 301 or 302 redirect?

 

Create .htaccess file and try this is.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com/index\.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

I would use this .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ http://www.your_domain.com$1.php [L,R=301]

Code (markup):

This will redirect any hit on /something.html to /something.php.

Jean-Luc

 

Jean-Luc, how would you do it so it will redirect only index.htm to index.php?

 

Try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(index)\.htm$ http://www.your_domain.com/$1.php [L,R=301]

Code (markup):

or better:

RedirectPermanent /index.htm http://www.your_domain.com/index.php

Code (markup):

Jean-Luc