html --- htm

[functionglass]

I have created a new basic site using easy.

The problem is my old site using frontpage used /.............htm  and easy uses /..............html

I used all the previous address page names etc so as to make the change over a simple as possible and thus the problem is that google on which I have been established for a few years now recognises the old htm address but not the new html address.

Do you think I should go into ftp and change the html to htm ?

Whats best ?

B

[pmillman · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It doesn't matter which extension you use (htm or html), as long as the links on your pages are using the matching extention.  When you publish with ESW, all of your pages should link fine and work properly.

If you previously used html and are now using htm, you may want to rename your old index file so it doesn't show up by mistake.  I renamed my old index.htm file as indexOLD.htm so it doesn't show up when someone visits my site but I can still use it for my own reference.

Peter

[dave]

You could always set up a .htaccess file with a mod_rewrite rule so that any file requests made for say file.htm will be directed to file.html.

Google will soon start listing the new .html extensions but this would stop any 404 errors in the meantime.