How to make .html extensions ?

[tbworld]

I am not trying to make you angry, I never want to make someone feel bad. Not my nature.

But vbulletin.org is the Official vBulletin "Modifications" Site. It is not the vbulletin "help and support" forum -- that is vbulletin.com. When you purchase vbulletin, you are paying for the licensing and support of the script not free help in making modifications. I am only stating this: because many people get confused about what vbulletin.org is.

On html extensions: I never replied to your question, because you never replied to mine. I asked you why you needed to have html as your extension?

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[Zachery]

I'd suggest you start here: http://www.php.net and start learning php, if this is something you really want. People are unlikely to do this for you, as it serves no purpose and would be completely useless to everyone else.

[SiteTalkZone]

Originally Posted by tbworld

I am not trying to make you angry, I never want to make someone feel bad. Not my nature.

But vbulletin.org is the Official vBulletin "Modifications" Site. It is not the vbulletin "help and support" forum -- that is vbulletin.com. When you purchase vbulletin, you are paying for the licensing and support of the script not free help in making modifications. I am only stating this: because many people get confused about what vbulletin.org is.

On html extensions: I never replied to your question, because you never replied to mine. I asked you why you needed to have html as your extension?

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Sorry I am rude, Its what i read somewhere gives best result with google, and my fav forum has same settings so wanted this badly.

[ccf]

Hey I know this is an old post... but I had the same issue and this communuties responses are disappointing to say the least. The answer takes all of two seconds to give and yet no one gave it?

Here's the answer:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([0-9]+\-.*)?\.html /$1/$2 [NC,L]

As for why you'd want to do this... if you have a lot of in-bound links pointing to *.html files you don't want to just invalidate those links. That'll kill SEO, bookmarks, etc.

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by ccf

Hey I know this is an old post... but I had the same issue and this communuties responses are disappointing to say the least.

See, we have all been waiting for a true genius to finally register.

The answer takes all of two seconds to give and yet no one gave it?

That is because the community thinks things through before answering. Now that you have provided the obvious and easy part, maybe you care to provide the other half of the answer, too? So now you can access pages with html extensions properly. Now all you have to do is teach vB to use html links internally. With your solution, all links in vB still don't have a .html extension.

[Zachery]

As cellarius has mentioned, you wrote a mod_rewrite rule, but you didn't actually do any of the heavy lifting to make it actually work with the application.

[John Lester]

Originally Posted by ccf

Hey I know this is an old post... but I had the same issue and this communuties responses are disappointing to say the least. The answer takes all of two seconds to give and yet no one gave it?

Here's the answer:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([0-9]+\-.*)?\.html /$1/$2 [NC,L]

As for why you'd want to do this... if you have a lot of in-bound links pointing to *.html files you don't want to just invalidate those links. That'll kill SEO, bookmarks, etc.

Not being an ass here, I have no idea why you would have in-bound links pointing to .html or .htm files

[ccf]

Not being an ass here, I have no idea why you would have in-bound links pointing to .html or .htm files

The old version of vBulletin linked to .html files, adn our in-bound was built while we were using it.

[squidsk]

Instead of trying to hack html into new versions of vb, why not just redirect the inbound html links to the appropriate php links in the current version?

[thetechgenius]

All you have to do is install DBSEO and configure it. It will allow you to have HTML extensions instead of PHP and a lot of other things. And you dont need any coding skills to install it.