[frankvh]

Yes, sort-of. I tried your suggestion:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule index.html - [T=application/x-httpd-php]

It does indeed work if I do this:
http://frankandcolleen.mydomain.com/index.html

But not if I do this (which unfortunately is the normal way of doing it)
http://frankandcolleen.mydomain.com

I'm not sure why the server makes a distinction between these two cases, but it obviously does.


Your hard link idea

ln index.html index.php

is a great idea - I'll do that. As you point out, then the cron job isn't needed anymore.