[tubedogg]

Originally posted by RobAC
I would be careful doing this. If you have registered your site with a lot of search engines and you have users that have bookmarked the index page of your site, as soon as you change the file extension to .php, you just broke all the links at all the search engines as well as any users that have bookmarked your site.

He also did that by changing it to .shtm.

Here's what I would do. Rename it to index.php, and then make index.html a page with a meta refresh tag saying "please wait" and then it auto-refreshes (with a link for those whose browsers' suck). That way the page still works, and you can still use a php page.

Also, I would imagine most of your visitors typed in (and bookmarked) mysite.com and not mysite.com/index.html. Just a thought.