Cannot execute php in html

[Anon]

Hi!

I'm very new to both php, html and apache.

I have installed Apache 1.3.22 and PHP 4.1.1 on a linux server based on SuSE 7.1 with kernel upgraded to 2.4.17.

My problem is this:

Pointing my browser to a file with the .php extension (i.e. http://192.168.1.100/test.php) executes the php code just fine.

But any attempt at the same, pointing at a .html file instead, only show the HTML contents of the file, silently ignoring all php statements (including generating nothing in my log files - and I have told both php and apache to log everthing (I think :-)).

I have tried several kind of tags, including <? ...phpcode... ?> and <?php ...phpcode... ?>, but nothing seems to work.

What am I missing?

Regards,
Henning

[Anon]

Unless you tell your server to process .html files as if they were .php files, it will ignore any php in .html files. Rename the file as .php and it should work just fine.