Unset .htaccess settings

anakadote

I'm working in sub-directory who's parent directory has an .htaccess file with the following settings:

## The next 2 lines are to run PHP 5.2 as CGI
## These lines can be removed when the site is ready to run PHP 5.3
AddType application/x-httpd-php52cgi .php
Action application/x-httpd-php52cgi /cgi-sys/php52.cgi

How can I unset or cancel these in a new .htaccess file so that the directory that I'm working in is not affected and runs PHP 5.3 as normal?

Weedpacket

My first thought would be to look through Apache's documentation (since that's what this controls). Indeed, there is a "RemoveType" directive.

anakadote

Indeed, but I don't want to remove php altogether, so the following isn't an option:

RemoveType .php

And the following, assuming this is even correct syntax, has no effect:

RemoveType application/x-httpd-php52cgi .php

Derokorian

Could you not RemoveType then simply AddType again, but pointing to 5.3 this time?

anakadote

Could you not RemoveType then simply AddType again, but pointing to 5.3 this time?

From the Apache documentation: "RemoveType directives are processed after any AddType directives, so it is possible they may undo the effects of the latter if both occur within the same directory configuration."

Also, I'm not sure exactly what I would AddType. I believe that 5.3 is compiled as an Apache module, that's why the parent directory was forcing php 5.2 to run as a CGI script. So I would imagine that if I could just unset what was set in the parent directory then the default settings should kick in. Admittedly, however, I'm not all that knowledgable or experienced when it comes to this stuff.