Question regarding having both HTML and PHP pages.

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Frist off, I'm still a bit green in IM and website building so this may seem like a pretty stupid inquiry to some of you, but I have to ask...

Is there a problem with having both HTML and PHP pages uploaded to the server? I'm using Xsitepro to build some sites and when I decided to change my page extensions to PHP, I now have that and my old HTML pages. I guess you can say I'm only worried that I will somehow get penalized for having both versions up.

The reason I have both up is that I had backlinks directed to my old HTML pages (which I realized a bit late before switching over), but when I deleted them to replace with PHP, they obviously would produce the 404 error. I wanted to keep the old backlinks so that's why I uploaded HTML versions back up again.

So my obvious concern here is some crazy assumption that I get penalized for duplicate content for having both kids of pages uploaded. I'm wondering if I should just stick with the one format. Sorry if this all sounds a bit confusing, but does anyone care to chime in and help a newbie out?
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  • This is in the wrong category. Move it to Programming / Web design sections.
  • You can do a .htaccess redirect so that your .html files point to your new .php files.
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  • ^^ what the officer said...

    And do NOT keep both versions on your server - that's the textbook example of real duplicate content!
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  • Thanks very much guys! That's exactly what I was concerned about. I will be taking the old versions down immediately.
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    Question regarding having both HTML and PHP pages.

    Frist off, I'm still a bit green in IM and website building so this may seem like a pretty stupid inquiry to some of you, but I have to ask... Is there a problem with having both HTML and PHP pages uploaded to the server? I'm using Xsitepro to build some sites and when I decided to change my page extensions to PHP, I now have that and my old HTML pages. I guess you can say I'm only worried that I will somehow get penalized for having both versions up.