Codezwiz >> Forums >> General PHP Nuke Help >> GoogleTap/code I changed HELPED ME rewrite index.php 2 html

I was having trouble with only one aspect of googletap
and that is the rewrite rule for index.php to index.html

I know that it is the long url that search engines don't like but what i wanted to do is rewrite index.php to index.html so I could get the most important page on my site indexed as an html page (much more well "liked" by the engines than pages with *.php extensions long or short and could not cannot figure out why it wouldn't work

I had lost google page rank points because the content from index.php was not getting indexed from instead only from the pages that I usedmod_rewrite successfully on (the links/modules links)

I kept asking myself and trying to figure out "Why does index.php not rewrite to index.html???"

I wanted to have a "virtual index.html" getting indexed that was the ACTUAL output from index.php

SO here is what I did
I just changed the code in my .htaccess file to read like this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ /index\.php

IT USED TO READ
just :
RewriteRule ^index.html index.php
THAT DID NOT WORK!

and of course in header.php

I wrote the $urlin and $urlout arrays like this:

for the urlin$

"'(?<!/)index.php'",

and for the urlout$

"index.html",

at the very bottom of my .htaccess file all it reads is:
DirectoryIndex index.php
which used to be at the top -doesnt really matter where it is top or bottom

but the object was and is now accomplished that if you type in [ Register or login to view links on this board. ]
the output is that from [ Register or login to view links on this board. ]

if you use google toolbar with page rank enabled you will notice that the index.php link has no rank while the index.html has a rank

end result - index.html (which technically and literally does not exist on the server) - will now get indexed by google and many other search engines if the link is actually called using a http request - like links etc. - I had to keep directory index as index.php though because if i didnt and you called the url [ Register or login to view links on this board. ] by itself and the directory index listed in my .htaccess file was index.html it display the actual directory listing not a webpage - I guess the way it works is that the default homepage must be a real page that actually exists! - so now I will simply create links on my php site that link to index.html and voila' I get the most important page on my site indexed!!!!!!