Replacing .php ext with .html via .htaccess

Question

Hello!

I am trying to replace .php extensions with .html

So far I have received:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html $1.php 

... it works well when url is entered as /site/page.html (and page.html does not physically exist, but page.php ).

However, what I would like to have is when /site/page.php is entered, the viewer only sees /site/page.html in the browser location.

Is this doable or do I need to set up explicit redirects for each page ?: - (

Thanks in advance.

ps: dev environment I use XAMPP on os x if that matters

Answer 1

 RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php $1.html [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html $1.php 

edit after pulling the white rabbit out of the hat

 RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (.*)\.php RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php $1.html [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (.*)\.html RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html $1.php [L] 

Answer 2

 RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (.*)\.php RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php $1.html [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (.*)\.html RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html $1.php [L] 

Answer 3

Try:

 RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [L] 

Answer 4

I think it is very simple.

 AddType application/x-httpd-php .html 

it processes each .html file as a regular .php

if you want it only for the current directory

 <Files *.html> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Files>