Hello all again,
Sorry if I am a bother asking this and hope I can ask in this section??
OK our RSD site it working well and was able to get the RSD site 87% compression.
I will be making a complete makeover over the site in the next few months with RSD 2.0 and than use FF. When pages are made in RSD etc. they all are .html, which I know about. Since my site has been made so long ago when we used 3 letters as .htm what I have done on 2 or 3 pages is: After exporting the RSD I open and add the index.html page and ALSO make a seperate index.htm But now that gives me 2 separate index pages one .htm and one html I do have the index.html 301 redirect to the index.htm as that was up for so many years. Should I have 301 the other way and go index.htm to index.html instead? And since I now have two index type pages should I actually delete one of them? From what I have been reading this can cause a search crawl problem with the bots as they see duplicate info????

Any thoughts??

I want to also once again Thank ALL with their expertise that have helped this non-designer I have learned so much and also Coffee Cup for the programs
Ray

The process you are taking now really is adding a ton of workload for you. The easiest way to deal with his is with a simple htaccess file. All you have to do is re-direct any .htm page to .html. This way you only have 1 website file to deal with and any old pages that had .htm will automatically be redirected to a .html version instead.

Create a file called .htaccess and paste this in there:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.htm$
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}l [R=301,L]

Thank you Scott that would help alot, since I do have a .htacess file should I than remove the 301's and just add what you have?
If I can asked another question: Is it best than to also remove the .htm from the net and only keep the html one?
Thank you,
"Newbie still learning each day"
Ray

I don't see any reason to keep them. You are getting the redirect automatically from the htaccess.

You can actually delete all files that end in HTM as well as they won't be needed. When you try and access any file that ends in HTM it will automatically change the extension to .HTML

Thank you Scott that is what I will do as soon as the thunder storms leave the area. I appreciate the help
Ray

Scott must be doing something wrong I did add the info you gave, deleted the 301's for the htm's in the .htacess I had, than uploaded and also REMOVED the pages that had .htm when I now try and go to the index.html page 404 not found until I add the index.htm back and upload it. It seems it needs to redirect???
OK any thought what I did wrong??
See http://www.kreationspecialties.com/index.html goes back to htm page.
Ray

I would check your htaccess file again. You got something in there not correct. I would start with just using what I pasted in and nothing else.

Ok Scott will do just that as soon as the boomers past.
Ray

Ok Scott I redid it and now it seems to not show .index.html or index.htm but only shows the main donain name which I was hoping so that seems ok now. I will now try tomorrow removing any .htm's that have been uploaded and hopefully it will be ok as I said hopefully
Ray

Are you sure you even need to do anything? Who is your web hoster?
It is my understanding that *.htm is the same as *.html on servers. Or there will be a setting to make that happen.

For instance, my hoster - is the same (Godaddy and even a local hoster). index.htm to auto defaulted to index.html (for all file names). The first link on your forum footer, its the same. But for your travel site, its not. I would check into the hoster and ask them why that is not the case. There should be a order of priority like index.htm > index.html > index.php > default.htm > default.html > default.php.

Godaddy has a priority order for 19 file types of the same name for Windows hosting, and 11 for Linux hosting.