Posted by Michael Fesser on 09/08/07 20:41

..oO(J.O. Aho)

>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

We are talking about a single site or even a single directory, not about
the entire server.

>then the load
>will be the same, but as you can't and the OP wrote, not all of the pages
>contains PHP

dorayme wrote:

| All the files have php in them.

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>so there will be waist of CPU capacity parsing all HTML as PHP.

There would be much more waste if you have to rename a file from .html
to .php and redirect all old links to the new one.

Micha

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