Best way to go from index.html to index.php?
 

I have had a domain.com for a long time with simply an index.html as the root page (domain.com/index.html) and I need to put up a domain.com/index.php page instead.

There are many sites linking to the index.html...what would be the best way to send everything to index.php instead? 301 redirect to maintain SE integrity?

This is what i was thinking:
http://www.domain.com/index.html would be a 301 redirect to index.php
so
http://www.domain.com/ would basically go to index.html which would redirect to index.php

Is this ok or is there a better idea?

are they actually linking to index.html?

edit: or just domain.com/

Just replace index.html w/ index.php and add this to .htaccess

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ index.php

that is the way I would do it, just a quick redirect to the php

:thumbsup

That's usually what I'd do.

Or you could use a 301 redirect:
you'll need to replace [colon] and [dot] obviously. They're just there because I have less than 30 posts.

Great, I'll do the htaccess...thanks guys!

modRewrite fo sure! :thumbsup