make one .php file read as an .htm file

I have had to change a form to work with a CRM system. The form is a .php form yet all the links in my website are .htm pages.

My question is, can I use Mod_rewrite (internal?) so all of the pages pointing to the old form.htm page will be redirected to the new form.php page so we don't have any broken links?

Am I overthinking this? Or I am remembering an easy mod rewrite to accomplish this? Just don't know where I can find it again.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

M

 

search google for "301 redirect using .htaccess"

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^form.htm form.php

 

Thank you for your help. My htaccess file was cluttered with Frontpage extension garbage ( really I only use it as a straight html editor - I swear) and caused havoc when I posted any more code there. So I said let me try something and changed the extension to .htm and the little bugger worked! The only problem I had after that was the thank you page had to be a php extension or it wouldn't work, but that was ok because nothing else had to link to that anyway - so overall in my recent events of 1Million things going wrong, my day has just improved!!!

And I say thank you guys for getting back with help so quickly - Big Hugs!!

Meredith

 

using .htaccess to change .php extension to .html extension or another extension