pages with .php extension redirect to .html

Question

I m trying to redirect all pages with extension .php to .html with the following code:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ /rules/$1.html [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)\.html$ /rules/$1.php [NC,L]

but got an error "This webpage has a redirect loop"

Answer 1

You have done first redirection of .php to .html and after that you doing .html to .php redirect so, that will recursion of redirection.

make code like this. that will redirect .php to .html files.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ /rules/$1.html [R=301,L]

Answer 2

Replace your code with this:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo.html
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php[\s?] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1.html? [R=301,L]

# To internally forward /dir/foo.html to /dir/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+?)\.html?$ /$1.php [L,NC]