Replace header and footer with custom header and footer

Question

Drupal 7 by default adds HTML DocType, Scripts, Meta Tags and few other things. I want to add my own custom PHP script which has header and footer. How would I do this? It seems that theirs no documentations regarding this.

Currently I have this few PHP Files on my Theme

• html.tpl.php
• node.tpl.php
• page.tpl.php
• template.info
• template.php

According to Stackoverflow Question all the doctypes and header information will go in this file html.tpl.php on my theme. Well that's what I did. What am missing here?

Answer 1

You need to clear the Drupal cache.