Hi,

Is there a way to change the page extension from html to htm? I am converting my site over to RSD and have had my page extensions as htm for YEARS and would love to be able to keep the same links.

Thanks!

Not that I'm aware of, pretty sure someone else recently asked that question and the answer was no. What I would highly suggest is that you leave them as HTML pages and if needed do redirects to your new pages. This way there is no hassle on trying to keep them changed on a constant basis as you would have to do this every single time you updated any of your pages.

Thank you! I had a feeling that the answer was going to be no. I was hoping I wasn't going to have to do the redirect thingy. My old software allowed you to change the page extensions to whatever you wanted, which made it easy to work with existing sites.

If you work on a Mac, you can use Automator to quickly rename your extensions.

You've GOT to be kidding! I'm working on a clients website who has very good #1 ranking in Google. The last thing I want to do is convert all his pages to .html when they were originally setup as .htm
Back in the day when I first started using CoffeeCup you could use either extension... They are aware of this and should have known to include this as an option in RSD. So now because they choose not to include this as an option, I need to figure out how I'm going to change these file extension.

You can easily do this with .htaccess John.

# Redirect old file path to new file path
Redirect page-name.htm page-name.html

Sort of figured that would be the work around for this. However I'm more concerned how that will be viewed by Google and whether or not it will effect his ranking as a result? Thanks for quick reply and help.

Just off the cuff thought - if you set your menu and other in page links to pagename.htm (instead of the RSD created pagename.html) and then export - you could create a batch file that executes rename *.html *.htm in that folder.