RE: how to generate static html pages from dynamic php pages

> This is cool, but I would be really hesitant to make my 404 page serve > up actual real content, even if it's only the first time the link is > hit. For the sake of search engines that might ignore links that return > a 404 error (regardless of the content at that page), I would want to > make sure my content returns a valid HTTP status code, so that search > engines know that the content is okay to index. It wouldn't be a 404 error, though. The 404 page would be an interceptor. It would say, okay, you're looking for products/1234/index.html, but it doesn't exist. Let me create it for you, and redirect you back to it. So the search engine or user is none the wiser and they get products/1234/index.html no matter what. Now, if the product really doesn't exist, then you throw them a 404 error, so they know. ---John Holmes...