Mike, there are several solutions to your problem. Here are a few:
******** 1) Redirect visitors to the new page To do this, create/modify a .htaccess file in the directory where your old page is and include the following line: Redirect permanent oldpage.html http://yourserver.com/newpage.php This will tell Apache that oldpage.html is no longer valid and automatically redirect visitors to the new page. Note: This only works if your webserver is Apache, other webservers probably have this option elsewhere. See also: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect ******** 2) Force PHP parsing of your old file To do this, create/modify a .htaccess file in the directory where your old page is and include the following lines: <Location oldpage.htm> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Location> This will force apache to process oldpage.htm as a PHP file. See also: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html#forcetype ******** 3) Force PHP parsing of all .htm files This is similar to method 2, but you will need access to your httpd.conf file. Open it, and look for the line that says: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php and then simply add .htm at the end of it: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm This will tell Apache to send all .htm files on your server through the PHP parser. It works, but performance-wise it is not recommended to send all files through the PHP parser. See also: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html#addtype IMHO, I believe you should try these options in the order given, but depending on your needs you might go with another option. Good luck with that... Joerg. PS: And yes, [? should be <?php and ?] should be ?> -----Original Message----- From: Mike Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 6:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-INST] Need help putting a small pice of code on an html page On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:33:45AM -0800, Mike Young wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to the list and pretty new to php so please > forgive my ignorance. > > I came across a piece of php code to redirect foreign > countries to a page translated into their language and > I wish to put it on an html page. The page has a > ..htm extension and I don't want to change it to a .php > extension because it's in search engines, traffic > trades etc. But when I put it on my htm page the code > shows. I've pasted the code below, just as I found it. > > My question: How can I make this work, after editing, > on a page with an htm extension without having to > change it to a php extension? > Also , i notice it begins [? and ends ?]. Should that > be <? and ?> instead. I assume it should go in the > body of the page? > > As I said I'm pretty new to php so forgive the > ignorance. Any help would be very much appreciated. > Thanks, > Mike > > > here it is: > > PHP FILTERING CODE [? $user_lan = $HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE; if($user_lan=='de') { ## German $redir_url = "http://www.germanlanguagepageurl.com";; } elseif($user_lan=='fr') { ## French $redir_url = "http://www.frenchlanguagepageurl.com";; } elseif($user_lan=='it') { ## Italian $redir_url = "http://www.italianlanguagepageurl.com";; } elseif($user_lan=='es') { ## Spain $redir_url = "http://www.spanishlanguagepageurl.com";; ## US traffic or Rest of world not defined above } else { $redir_url = "http://www.yourmainpageurl.com";; } header("Location: $redir_url"); exit; ?] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
