Quick Apache Solution Please?

[kbc1]

Hi all

I have re-developed a site locally on my PC and uploaded it to the host server and all has gone bang! I used the Apache ForceType directive to force scripts without an extension to parsed as PHP (I have done this loads of times) but my hosts are saying to me this cannot be done with them and I have to use:

Options +MultiViews

Well, I have looked for examples and have used the following in my htaccess file:

Options +MultiViews
DirectoryIndex about-us about-us.php contact-us contact-us.php

But when I run my http://www.mydomain/about-us URL, the page is displayed in the browser as plan text and not parsed as PHP

Can anyone shed any immediately light on what I need to do to get these pages parsed as PHP pleaseusing this Multiview method please?

I do not want to use mod_rewrite that is why I use forectype normally.

Aaaarrrgggghhh!

Thanks in advance.

[kbc1]

Hi

I have received an update from the hosts on this and the ForceType does work with them but PHP is run as CGI for security reasons. They said I needed to use a shebang and include ForceType cg-script into my htaccess file but will not help me with the coding.

I have this at the top of my about-us page:

<?php 
#!/usr/bin/php

// below here is my php page/script

In my htaccess file I have this:

<FilesMatch "^{(about-us|contact-us)">}
ForceType cgi-script
</FilesMatch>

But the page is still not being parsed as PHP

Can anyone help pease?

Thank you.

[zzman]

shebang goes above the php tag (<?)

[bradgrafelman]

In fact, IIRC, the '#!' characters that start a shebang must be the first two characters of the first two lines of the script.