No file extensions on PHP files with phpsuexec

Helios

My site runs completely from a MySQL database.

I have a file with universal code that is included into each section of my Web site. Each section is represented by an extensionless file which allows me to have URLs like this: mysite.com/section/page, where section is the actual page (it looks like a subdirectory).

The structure of my site goes like this:

/www/.htaccess (contains DefaultType application/x-httpd-php)
/www/inc/universal.php (contains all my code)
/www/section (a file that includes universal.php)

This used to work, but my host recently started using phpsuexec which gives me a 500 error when I try to view mysite.com/section. There are no CHMOD problems (I have read extensively on phpsuexec). All my directories are stricter than 755 and all my PHP files are 400 or 600.

I just need some way to set extensionless files to PHP without using ForceType or DefaultType in my .htaccess, or some way to make the .htaccess stuff work.

brainlag

Maybe this isn't what you're looking for, and maybe I'm way off, but the problem is going to be that PHP is no longer handled by Apache and as such, any reference to PHP won't work, even if that reference is inside .htaccess. I have a very similar problem with GoDaddy, because they use phpsuexec to handle php rather than Apache. .htaccess will still work for all other files, except php and php handler expressions. Maybe your host is set differently, but if you find a solution, please post back what you did. I would love to have .htaccess functionality for php back.

Helios

That's exactly right, that is my problem. The only thing now is to find a solution 😉

I will post when I fix this, though.

Helios

I have, ostensibly, found a solution to my problem, but it doesn't actually work for me (though it might work for you).

So say you want to have a .php file without an extension, but your server is using phpsuexec and you can't use .htaccess anymore.

IF AND ONLY IF you have access to server-level configuration files (httpd.conf, srm.conf, etc) you can use the Alias directive.

So if I have a file called mypage.php and I want it to pretend to have no extension, I would add this to my server config:

Alias /mypage /pathto/www/mypage.php

There are many more options, check out Apache documentation for Alias

Helios

Here is another solution, though it will NOT work on every server.

Add the following to your .htaccess file to tell your server to parse extensionless files as PHP:

<FilesMatch "^{[^.]*$">}
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

Warning
Using DefaultHandler application/x-httpd-php will parse ALL files as PHP, including binary files such as Flash!