Heads up: this should be used if you have recently switched your programming of choice. Example: all of your .html file extensions have been globally renamed to .php
Simply copy and paste this into your .htaccess file.
redirectMatch 301 ^/(.*)\.html$ http://www.domaininquestion.com/$1.php
Make sure to upload this file to the folder you would like this change to apply to or just upload to root to make all files do it.
Heads up: HTACCESS redirects are for LAMP server environments only. Microsoft IIS or any other Operating System will assume you are out of your mind if you upload this file to root.
But Ivan, what's the benefit of HTACCESS redirects? it's picked up by search engines much more easily than javascript, and integrated 10 times faster. The PHP header location command does the same thing, but it also isn't as time efficient.
Usually, tutorial websites instruct you on making "Hello World!" page.
In this certain example. I'm going to teach you how to make a page that says "Good day world, today you shall be smitten by my greatness" - So, let's get down to creating the file.
You could create this file in Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage by a click of a button but if your laptop blew up from overclocking, you're stuck at a kiosk, with no means but Notepad to patch a website emergency for NASA - then hand coding will prove useful.
Hey you, I'll be updating the website as time allows but some of the first that will be up will be HTML tutorials.
Later