I recently played with a .htaccess file to make one server to parse PHP files. Yesterday I uploaded the same .htaccess file and tried to test a PHP file. But something went wrong: visiting my page the browser offers to download the the html page rather then viewing the page!
On the server the filenames end in .html.
I added the following to my .htaccess file:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
I tried to find the htaccess file, but once uploaded it just disappears from the root dir.
I tried to upload other scripts I've found browsing. I even tried to search for some problem on a hosting forum. Nothing helped.
Please help!
Try this
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html
OR
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html
And remove other overriding handlers for application/x-httpd-php after above code.
Right, firstly things first, what host do you use?
Also what ftp client you are using? Some by default won't display files starting with . such as .htaccess and .htpasswd, that's why it may appear that you didn't upload it. Also it might be that you don't have the rights to upload in the very root directory, try to go one directory up.
Also from my experience, hosts won't allow you to modify headers via .htaccess this way, because the allowoverride directive is off; instead have a look at url rewrites (via mod_rewrite), which allow you to do the same thing without modifying headers.
Your rewrite .htaccess file might look something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(\w+)\.html$ $1.php [NC]
(Not tested though)
Using a rewrite will also mean that your files will in fact maintain the php extension, however they will be access via urls that include .html extension.
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So I'm trying to configure my .htaccess file so that it can runs the PHP code inside the HTML files.
When I go to mysite.com/thefile.php, it runs it correctly without any problem. Same if I go to mysite.com/thefile.html. But if I add <?php echo "Hello"; ?> inside the HTML file, it doesnt display anything. In fact, when I right click "View source code", it displays the php lines.
Here's what I tried with my .htaccess file:
RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html .htm
I also a tried with just
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html .htm
But it displays a "500 Internal Server Error" that says:
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
The most common causes of this problem are errors in the app's .htaccess file or incorrect file or directory permissions preventing the web server from reading the .htaccess file.
More information about this error is available in the app's Apache error log at:
/srv/users/SYSUSER/log/APPNAME/APPNAME_apache.error.log
I'm quite new to web development in general, and I want to mention that, except from these 2/1 lines in the .htaccess file, I have nothing else. Maybe I'm missing some lines in it? Just a guess
Thanks guys (and gals if they exist!)
With Ubuntu/Apache 2.4.x, in your /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php7.1.conf or equivalent, you could add:
<FilesMatch ".+\.html$">
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
(But you shouldn't do this at all! Use .php files for PHP code.)
There is a problem with PHP parsing the html files on my site.
I've been using php in html files, together with the directive
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .html .htm
in the .htaccess file, without any problem for 5 years.
Since a couple of days ago, suddenly it doesn't work anymore.
Only the .php files are parsed properly and the html files are not, anymore
(the actual php code is displayed instead of the result of the execution!)
I contacted the host service but they say they can't offer support.
I thought that for some reason the .htaccess file is not read anymore by the server,
but I tested it with a redirect directive and it worked.
Then I thought that they modified something in the php engine and beside the above mentioned directive I've tried each of the following directives:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .html .htm
but no success.
So html file are not php parsed anymore, but I've noticed someting interesting about the index.html file:
if I access mydomain.com/index.html the result is bad,
HOWEVER, if I access just mydomain.com then it displays properly !!
(And of course, there is no index.php file). That means the index.html file is actually parsed, in this case.
BUT, the situation stays the same even if the .htaccess file is deleted.
For this particular file (index.html), the behavior is the same in any of the subdirectories.
As the hosting service is not helpful with checking their server configuration settings,
I wonder if there is anything I can try on my side, as I'm stuck with this.
And any hints would be welcome.
Thanks.
I was following a video tutorial on Youtube from phpacademy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxWYeCGa-PA&index=6&list=WL to make a dynamic RSS feed. In order to do that I need to be able to use php inside my rss file.
In this video the guy mentions adding the following line to the HTTPD-Conf file in order to allow this.
AddType application/x-httpd-php .rss
I contacted my web host 123-reg and asked them
Do I have access to the HTTPD.Conf file, or is it already configured to allow this.
I am looking to add the following line of code to the file if it isn't already in there.
AddType application/x-httpd-php .rss
What options do I have?
They responded with the following
The HTTPD.Conf file cannot be accessed with a shared hosting package
as the one used to host the website for the domain vwrx-project.co.uk.
This file is already configured to allow RSS, however you will need to
enable it. You can try adding the handler into the .htaccess file.
Does this make any sense to someone, I don't really know what code I should be looking to add into my .htaccess file
You can use url rewriting (if your hosting supports this) to direct non-existing files and directories, with .rss extension to .php:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.rss$ /$1.php [L,QSA]
Put all these lines into your .htaccess file and youtubefeed.rss will open youtubefeed.php, which you can program yourself.
After some more hunting around, and having looked up DaveG's code I wasn't sure it would do as I would have liked.
I have a file with a .rss extension for my rss feed, so from my understanding of the above code, it would redirect you from filnename.rss to filename.php where as what I was looking to do was retain the .rss extension but allow that file to read and interpret the php within it.
After some more searching I found that I could have used the original code from the video, and place it inside my .htaccess file instead on my httpd.conf file, I didn't realize that the code was interchangeable.
AddType application/x-httpd-php .rss // For older versions of php
Anyway whilst looking for this solution I saw some using the line of code below to achieve the same result, the only real difference being it is for PHP5 and later which is whats running on my server so AddType is now AddHandler and we add a 5 to the end of php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .rss // For use with PHP5+
I'm stuck trying to figure out what directives my htaccess file for a directory needs. To give a little background, I was messing around with AddType and AddHandler to try to get html files to run php in them. I was adding directives like:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html
and
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php .html
That didn't work, so I tried adding handlers as well:
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php .html
and
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .html
That still didn't give me what I wanted so I tried many combinations, like:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html
AddHandler php-script .php .html
I even tried combinations with SetHandler
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html
AddHandler php-script .php .html
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php .php html
I tried every imaginable combination of AddType and AddHandler found on the web.
!===== This is important ======!
I realized that its not good practice to have php run your html files just so you can run php in the html. I am no longer trying to do that. The only reason I'm posting this part above is to give you an idea on some things I've changed. These changes were made to the htaccess file at a directory above the root.
!==============================!
Now that I'm no longer trying to run my php in html files I cleared the AddType, AddHandler, and SetHandler directives from the htaccess file. But now I get an internal server error when trying to run php files.
So I tried putting some stuff back. If I had a handle, the browser now downloads the php instead of running it.
I should note that any php running below the directory I changed works fine. But everything in that directory or subdirectory of that directory has this same problem with php files.
I have tried deleting the htaccess file in that directory, but that does not work, I get an internal error.
If I turn Override off, I get an internal error.
Something I changed is persisting in that directory and I'm wondering how to either
a. turn it off
b. add the correct handler to that htaccess file so that php files are run again (like they are on the rest of the server)
I did have the exact same issue so I deleted all the content of .htaccess and started trying only with handlers until I figured it out. My local .htaccess copy had the following SetHandler:
AddHandler x-httpd-php5-3 .php
In my case it worked after changing it to:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
It seems the whole trick is only the handler, I tried this solution in 2 different servers with different configurations and in both cases just changing AddHandler worked. If this doesn't work for you try a different handler for php.
Hope it helps.
Just realized I left this up unanswered after I solved the problem. If someone has a similar problem and is reading this : Check the permissions on all associated folders. I can't remember the specifics but one of the directories involved (I believe it was the htaccess directory) had permissions that persisted after changing some things and then changing them back.
Ok so I've recently installed to test Orbis CMS, and I love it, except two things - this being one of them.
Test page 'page.php' worked fine, great! Incorporated it into an existing html page and that's where I ran into the issue. Duhr, it won't run the php snippits.
Quick Google shed light that I needed to add a piece of code into the .htaccess file to allow the html file(s) to run the php code. Tried it, and nothing, didn't work, at all. Was going off this link (provided by Orbis) here: http://php.about.com/od/advancedphp/p/html_php.htm
When I did it for all pages it started doing funky stuff and asking me to download/open pages when I clicked the links throughout the site, but not every link.. ?? When I did it for the single test page it didn't work full stop.
Anyone got any ideas?
Cheers.
Why don't you just rename the .htm file to .php ? You can have normal HTML in PHP files aswell, just outside of the <?php ?>Tags.
.htaccess has to be allowed from your hoster, so that might be the reason why it didn't work.
EDIT: Then just replace the .htm File with a redirection to your .php file.
You can achieve this by <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/yourfile.php">
Or if the .htaccess is run by the webserver you can do a redirect there:
Redirect /youroldsite.htm yournewsite.php (would be the better version)
You need to change your .html to .php.
as you mentioned that .htaccess is not working check these thing it may help you
Is .htaccess enabled?
It's unusual, but possible that .htaccess is not enabled on your site. If you are hosting it yourself, it's easy enough to fix; open your httpd.conf in a text editor, and locate this section
Your DocumentRoot may be different, of course
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory "/var/www/htdocs">
#
locate the line that reads..
AllowOverride None
and change it to..
AllowOverride All
Restart Apache. Now .htaccess will work. You can also make this change inside a virtual host, which would normally be preferable.
If your site is hosted with someone else, check your control panel (Plesk. CPanel, etc.) to see if you can enable it there, and if not, contact your hosting admins. Perhaps they don't allow this. In which case, switch to a better web host.
and also check that rewrite_module is marked
Rename your Files to .php or change your server configuration to recognize .htm files as PHP files, too.
Example (httpd.conf):
<IfModule php5_module>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html
</IfModule>
As an alternative you could setup mod_rewrite to route to your php file on specific URLs.
You need to change your .html to .php. You mentioned you need to keep the link equity from other sites to your .html pages. To get around this, simply add a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file.
//301 Redirect
Redirect 301 oldfile.html newfile.php