How can I include the period (.) in Vim's search and replace command? (replacing .html extensions)?

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Published on 2010-04-30T13:14:57Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 13:17 UTC
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When I do: /.html Vim looks for html

I would like to replace all the .html with .php

Something like this: :%s/html ext/php ext/g

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