How to parse .html files as php only in webroot directory (not subs)

jalperin

I have several .html files in my webroot directory which need to be parsed as php because they contain some php code. I've set up an .htaccess file with the following, and it works just fine:

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

The problem is that I want to limit the effect of this to the webroot directory only. For all subdirectories, I don't want .html pages to be parsed by the php interpreter.

How do I limit php parsing of .html files to the "superdirectory" only and not have it happen for any subdirectories?

Thanks.

bradgrafelman

I'm not sure how to make .htaccess only apply something like this to the root directory while excluding subdirectories unless you put a .htacccess file in each subdirectory to override the one in the root.

One possible workaround would be to rename the .html files you wish to be parsed as PHP files to .php and use mod_rewrite like so:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.html $1.php [NC]

jalperin

I believe I've solved the problem. I had tried putting the following in an .htaccess file in each of the subdirectories:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

(note the missing html htm)

but it didn't work. Adding this did:

AddType text/html .html .htm

I guess by redeclaring the text/html type, it stops using php to interpret for those file extensions.