[TYPO3] 404 handling with simulate static

[Simon Child]

"Dmitry Dulepov" <dmitry at typo3.org> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1.1165410642.19498.typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de...

> Simon Child wrote:
>> [Do I have to do some rewriting of all incoming url's to end in html?? 
>> Could be messy, since e.g. displaying a page from backend launches it not 
>> as 123.html but as index.php?id=123]
>
> I think you should care more about your visitors, not what you see from BE 
> ;)

OK :)

What I meant was that if I simplistically rewrite all requests that don't 
end in html, then

    index.php?id=123

might end up as

    index.php?id=123.html

and so backend preview wouldn't work.

But in fact, if I first test for existence of file before rewriting, then 
since index.php does exist, and indeed myfile.pdf also exists, my initial 
thought might work out alright. When I get a chance I'll experiment with 
some rewrite rules, but in the meantime Google has already recognised my 404 
is working and has validated my sitemap, so that is good :)

Thanks

-- 
Simon Child