PHP4 file name extension at Earthlink

[David L. Craig]

Although we are having a rought time getting Zoom to work, there is no doubt that this a quality product. And it is priced much too cheaply considering what it is able to do. We were looking at a much more expensive solution, that didn't deliver what we wanted. Congrats to the Australians. Having been to Sydney several times, I would have prefered dropping in on the Wrensoft gurus, but this forum will have to suffice.

Problem:
Our ISP (Earthlink) is hosting our site on a UNIX server in California.

They are telling us that we have to change the .php extension to .php4

When we do this with search.php4, it will work (although we are having plenty of problems).

Is there any way to configure the Zoom Search index so that it will automatically produce a php4 file? We use Dreamweaver MX.

I have read all of the several hundred posts to this forum, and realize that I am not in the same Web development ballpark with 99% of you.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Our rather pitiful website is at: www:any-book-in-print.com

[David]

It is very rare for a hosting company to demand that you use the file extension .php4 instead of just .php.

I can't think of any automated way to change the file extension without starting to write scripts in DOS.

A better solution might be to use the Apache .htaccess file to force the web server to direct any requests for search.php to search.php4

RedirectPermanent http://www.yoursite.com/search.php http://www.yoursite.com/search.php4

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David