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EightNineThree wrote:

> I've just taken over a nightmare of a site for an animal rescue organization
> that has *over* 1500 pages, many of them in a static "yellow pages"
> directory.
>
> I'm really new to manipulating .htaccess files, and I was wondering if
> there's a way to redirect every file from what was a .html file to what
> will become a .php version
>
> I hope to convert everything to use includes and also convert things like
> that yellowpages to db-driven content, but I really want to avoid what is
> sure to become a major search engine nightmare if I rename these files.

Put everything in a DB and generate *static* pages from the DB with for
example Perl.

John

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