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[Atavistic]

I have no idea what the correct terms are, so I'm going to try and explain this as much as I can.

Most of my pages are .shtml because I'm doing SSI. Because I designed my website like this from the beginning, I have NOT changed me .htaccess file to parse, yadda yadda. Fine. No problem.

But it used to be that if you went to www.mywebsitenamehere.com/gallery or /list or /whatever, it would automatically go to /whatever.shtml without displaying that in the browser bar. I could link just to /whatever and it was fine, it would find it. Now, for some reason, I must link to /whatever.shtml and that ugliness shows up in the browser bar.

A) Does anyone understand what I'm saying and b) does anyone know how to fix it?

I am looking for either

something that sort of says "OK, folks, if we find a /file, look for /file.html first and if that doesn't exist then look for /file.shtml and if that doesn't exist then look for /file.htm and if that doesn't exist then..."

OR

something that permanently redirects all /file to /file.shtml WITHOUT me having to manually write a redirect for every file on my site.

I DO have access to the .htaccess file.

Anyone? Please?

[jeffkim1972]

Atavistic,

post your

.htaccess

and

httpd.conf

files, let's take a look.

[ttompatz]

[tfunk]

If you are using apache then make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled (phpinfo(); will tell you what's enabled)and then study up the Apache RewriteCond and RewriteRule directives (if you want to edit .htacess which is probably likely if you aren't running your own server).

Google 'friendly urls'.

I found this but didn't have time to review it:

http://www.phpriot.com/d/articles/php/application-design/search-engine-urls/index.html

[The King of Kwangju]

Here's a nice little tool:

http://www.mod-rewrite-wizard.com/