PHP Within HTML files

joe95neon

Way back when I was able to use PHP within my regular HTML files. I now have a new server and can't figure out what file that is found in and what the name of the command is.

Can you help me out?

dnast

If you're using Apache you go into the httpd.conf file and in the 'AddType' section put something like "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .html" depending on what extensions you want to allow.

joe95neon

Well my provider says this:
"Well, the only problem with that is httpd.conf rewrites itself every apache restart (which is about every 15 minutes). Perhaps there's another way you can find that will work for Plesk."

We use Plesk by the way 😉

We used Plesk also on our previous server and was able to do this, but our new provider can't? I don't think we had an issue even when we restarted apache before.

He doesn't really mean every 15 minutes right? 😉

Thanks for the help!

Joe

laserlight

Um, in order for changes in httpd.conf to take effect, Apache webserver must be restarted.

If httpd.conf was rewritten everytime Apache restarted, then it is impossible to make any changes to it, even for just 1 clock cycle.
httpd.conf would be quite useless, since Apache might as well store the configs internally, and refuse to let anyone change it without having to recompile Apache.
That in turn would make any binary distribution of Apache not very useful, since it would be better to simply get the sources alone (saving bandwidth), and compile Apache yourself, after altering the configs by altering the code.

My guess would be that he has another script that needs (or rather, wants) the webserver to be restarted every 15 minutes.
Whatever script was used for that purpose also wrote a new copy of httpd.conf
If that's true, then that script is probably a Bad Thing.

joe95neon

He is being nice about it, but can you check and see if this sounds right?....

"That's standard Plesk stuff mate. Anytime a person adds a domain httpd.conf has to be overwritten or it doesn't add those vhost lines to the conf file. If those lines aren't added, those sites are not viewable on the web. I've been running Plesk for over 3 years and it's just a fact of the software.

There are work arounds for it such as making a vhost.conf file in your conf folder to your domain. If you have particular code that can go in there, feel free to shoot it over."

Again thanks for all the help!

I haven't been to this site for about 2 years (I think) and it has just grown a lot 😉

Joe

laserlight

Sounds reasonable.

I have never used Plesk myself, but a little searching shows that using vhost.conf for your domain should work the same way as httpd.conf does across the whole webserver.

joe95neon

Do you have any instruction for me on how to do it in the vhost.conf. I have a conf folder in my FTP access, but permission denied when trying to open it 😉. I guess I just send it to him and he puts it in.

I am going to do some searching online for an example. I just need to get it right the first time so I don't waste his time or mess anything up 😃

Thanks!

Joe

laserlight

yes, vhost.conf should be outside of your document root.

Changing it should be easy with shell access, or you have to contact the admin.

joe95neon

I have searched and searched I don't know how to make it.

Do I just make a file with that name and put the AddType in there? What is the process?

Thanks!

laserlight

Best would be to ask the server admin to set it up for you.

I would probably treat it as a httpd.conf file, then test to see if that works.
If it doesnt, then I'll look up Apache's docs on virtualhost directives.

You dont have such access to the server though, so such a test and see method wont work.
But your server admin has that sort of access.