Pagerank - Friendly url redirection

[shockie]

i'm in the process of changing my filenames from blah.htm to differentBlah.php, but i currently have links from third parties going to blah.htm. my question is, how can i redirect the old files to their respective new files, or just to index.php, and properly keeping the pagerank flow?

 

[Eric]

Are the files just changing extension? Ie: blah.htm to blah.php ? If so, something like..

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

 

[shockie]

oops, didn't notice there was a reply .

the files are changing extension along with filename, hence the blah.htm to differentBlah.php. unfortunately, there isn't much correlation from blah to differentBlah, so i wouldn't mind finding a solution that just sends pagerank (and visitors) from blah.htm to index.php.

 

[Eric]

.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ /index.php [R=301,L]

Or, if you want to include the exact files:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule blah\.htm /index.php [R=301,L]
RewriteRule blah2\.htm /index.php [R=301,L]
#etc

 

[shockie]

great thanks!!