Database-driven pages w/ ".html" extension?

[deskjockey]

Hi,

I'm new to databases....

I am just curious how some web sites create database-driven pages with ".html" extensions (instead of .asp, .cfm, .php, etc.). What language is used to do this?
Is there an advantage to keeping your pages as .html, as opposed to .php, .asp, .cfm.....more search engine friendly??

Here is an example of what I'm talking about:
Database-driven .html ??


Thanks,
-G

[pionar]

without looking at the site too closely, my guess is that either they are generating the static pages with a script (a la movable type) or they have finagled their server configuration to have .html pages interpreted by php, perl, or whatever.

Or, they are using symlinks and/or URL rewriting techniques provided by apache's mod_rewrite *.html points to *.php or cgi or whatever.

The first two ways would be more search-engine friendly, yes, as the bot wouldn't have to handle ugly urls like "show.php?itemID=46548418&location=carlsbad" etc.

[deskjockey]

without looking at the site too closely, my guess is that either they are generating the static pages with a script (a la movable type) or they have finagled their server configuration to have .html pages interpreted by php, perl, or whatever.

Or, they are using symlinks and/or URL rewriting techniques provided by apache's mod_rewrite *.html points to *.php or cgi or whatever.

The first two ways would be more search-engine friendly, yes, as the bot wouldn't have to handle ugly urls like "show.php?itemID=46548418&location=carlsbad" etc.

Ah, I get it!
Thanks.

[fillup07]

The best way to do it, however, is to not have .html
instead, have NO extension:
and change something like:
show.php?itemID=46548418&location=carlsbad
to
/show/46548418/carlsbad/

[deskjockey]

The best way to do it, however, is to not have .html
instead, have NO extension:
and change something like:
show.php?itemID=46548418&location=carlsbad
to
/show/46548418/carlsbad/

Can this be done w/ Windows, or do you have to use the Apache mod_rewrite technique? I'm running Win 2K Server.

Any tut links?

Thanks.

[deuce868]

could you just tell the server to parse files with extension .html as php or asp? I know it does not clean up the querystring however.

[i_like_php]

simple use an .htaccess file and add this line of code to it and html pages will be parsed as php pages.

<Files *.html>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
</Files>