Parsing .html pages as PHP

jalperin

I have some pages with .html extensions that need to be parsed as PHP because they contain some php code. I've put the following in my .htaccess file in my root web directory (because that's where the .html pages are):

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html .htm

That code works, but . . .

. . . I don't want to parse .html files as PHP in subdirectories of the root web directory. In other words, if I have a file located at /htdocs/file.html, I want it parsed as PHP. If I have a file located at /htdocs/subdirectory/file.html, I do NOT want it parsed as PHP. How do I do this? I tried adding a .htaccess file to the /subdirectory with the following line:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

but it still seemed to parse any .html files in /subdirectory as PHP

Thanks for any help.

--Jeff

halojoy

I tried adding a .htaccess file to the /subdirectory with the following line:

Maybe should be:
AddType application/x-httpd-html .html

Drakla

You limit it with use of <Directory>

<Directory /my/php/*>
RemoveHandler .htm
</Directory>

EDIT: no, I'm talking arse, you have to make html files be normal again. Try RemoveHandler .htm

bradgrafelman

Hrm.... maybe this?

<Directory /htdocs/subdirectory>
AddType text/html .html
</Directory>

shrug

EDIT: Or perhaps you need a full path? i.e.

(for Windows, obviously)

Drakla

Well you can either put

RemoveHandler .htm

RemoveType .htm

In a .htaccess in the subdirectory, choose the one appropriate to how you set the type/handler. But I want to create a 'nice' .htaccess that you can put in one directory, htm files will be php in THAT directory, but not its subdirs. And of course make the paths relative so its portable. I'll race you to it.

jalperin

That suggestion seems to be working in Internet Explorer, but in Firefox, I get a dialog box that pops up that says:

You have chosen to open sample.html which is a: HTML file

What should Firefox do with this file?

Open with Firefox HTML (default)
Save to Disk

Why is this dialog appearing?

Drakla

It's probably not sending the html header. Try putting

AddType text/html .htm

As suggested before, as I know that does work.

I'm still working on my all-in-wonder solution using <Files>, but think it might be blighted with having to apply some specifics to the path, and I don't like them.

EDIT: Enough... I got this to work nicely from httpd.conf, but no htaccess plug and play

<Directory E:\MyPhp\php\testarea\ht-htm-as-php>
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .htm
</Directory>

<Directory E:\MyPhp\php\testarea\ht-htm-as-php*>
RemoveHandler .htm
</Directory>

jalperin

Hmmm. Tried that, but same result.

Here's my .htaccess file:

AddType application/x-httpd-html .html .htm
AddType text/html .htm .html

Here's a link to a sample file:

http://ccclients.com/nl/needlerosenberg/sample/test.htm

Works ok with IE, but still getting the header problem with Firefox.

bradgrafelman

On that link, I got this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:47:41 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.10 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Last-Modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:41:28 GMT
ETag: "af0057-24-42ba0538"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 36
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<?php echo "php is working";?>
hello

So, PHP is not being parsed and it's sent as normal HTML.

Copied the URL into Firefox and.... it worked fine. Must be something wrong with your Firefox.