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[sunken]

I have a website that is fairly indexed well in Google, but it was all in .html pages. Now I want to switch those pages to php so that I can have one central header and footer for each page which would make my life a lot easier when I want to change the headers and such (especially when it comes to banners). Is there a way to do this without upsetting the google index (through redirecting or some sort of include method in html?

Dont think I can change the httpd.conf at my shared host to be able to get .html pages to run like .php pages. Is there a way to do this in the .htaccess?

 

[Fewski]

Are they pages, or your main site?

If it is your main site, it won't change the ranking. Not sure about the specific pages though.

 

[sunken]

They are the internal pages, rather than the main page. Actually the main page I did have to change to PHP because it has some random things on it. This mostly concerns the gallery that I have that has about 40-50 pictures, each on their separate page and will have about 100 pages when it's done. The ones there now are indexed in google's image search and get some degree of traffic via that method. So on those pages I wanted to keep the URL's the same, so the links from google would still work until their spider had a chance to reindex if it does after the fact (which I hope it does as there will be a lot of new content).

I found an interim solution, which is to run some C code I wrote that batch changes all the files at once. A little inconvenient, but it works for now. Would like to be able to make them all php at some point though.

Thanks for your reply...