Posted by J.O. Aho on 09/08/07 20:31

Michael Fesser wrote:

> Nope, I know at least three different ways (MultiViews and mod_rewrite
> are the other two). All have their benefits and drawbacks. I just don't
> accept "parsing all .html for PHP wastes resources" as a general rule
> without knowing more details. Especially if all pages contain PHP as in
> this case - then the "waste" would be exactly the same with .php URLs.

If you can ensure that there never will be plain HTML pages, then the load
will be the same, but as you can't and the OP wrote, not all of the pages
contains PHP, so there will be waist of CPU capacity parsing all HTML as PHP.

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//Aho

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