Changing to Joomla, How to link .htm to .html ?
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- Foekie_t
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Hi,
I have a old .HTML/.HTM site, which I am transferring to a Joomla site... some of the pages of the OLD website are .HTML, but some of them ending with .HTM and also have PR3. In Joomla, the site converts it automatically to .HTML the pages, but I want to keep those pages, as they have PR 3 etc... I have several of these pages.
How can I handle this the best way ? Something like: That when someone requests test.htm that the person will go to test.html ?? So the PR will not get lost... Something in htaccess file ?? Or I should not do this.. ?
Please advise as I don't wanna loose valuable PR data...
Thanks.
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- Ben Lee
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Instead of trying to force Joomla to show an HTM page instead of HTML, I'd suggest using a sitemap component that creates a sitemap to submit to Google and other search providers. Then Google has some web developer tips and 99% of the time suggest using a htaccess 301 permanent redirect to the new page.
I'd do this after being able to submit things to Google.
I'm not an expert here, but the 301 permanent redirect tells Google that this is the same page but relocated...not duplicated. Also, having some pages re-written to "htm" while the rest are now "html" means that you'd be living with that for good.
I say change and take a hit if need be, but do a little research and use the 301 htaccess stuff now and get things moving along and more standardized.
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