.mobi .xhtml or .html - Htaccess file?

[pchip]

I have a free hosting account with godaddy and I uploaded my test website to it - index.xhtml. It didn't resolve. It seems that I must modify the htaccess file in my root account. I didn't see this file when I logged into my ftp account so i'm assuming that I need to create one. I think I found what I need but wanted to check with you guys to see if this is normal - does it matter who does the hosting or is this pretty typical.

I found this courtesy of member akc - under the 'WAP 2.0 Development. Tutorial for NamePros.com' sticky thread...

AddType application/xhtml+xml .xhtml
DirectoryIndex index.html index.xhtml index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite\.mobi [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yoursite.mobi/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} .*MSIE.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.xhtml$
RewriteRule .* - [T=text/html]

Thanks!

pc

update: I uploaded my new .htaccess and it worked!

Now, i'm still curious what everyone else has done to solve this issue. Anybody care sharing their .htaccess file?

Thanks!

pc

 

[texasgamer]

You can either modify your .htaccess file (like you did) or just change the name of index.xhtml to index.html
I have use both methods, without any problems noted.
goodluck!

 

[pchip]

Thanks for the response TexasGamer! Seems silly then to name it xhtml and modify the htaccess file if you can name it html and it works just the same.