Apache :: php issue on shared host

tk · Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

I'm having a bit of an issue here. I am working on a site that is on a shared server through a hosting company, so the only access I have to apache itself would be via .htaccess. The issue is that while php scripts do run in .php files, if I try to include php in my html....

<html>
html code for the page
<?php php code ?>
more html code
</html>

it doesn't parse the php at all. In fact, it treats the entire things as text and outputs <?php php code?> literally to the browser. The questions are, I guess, why is this happening and how can I fix it in .htaccess?

Jorge · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 376 Location: Belgium

php should only be used i nfiles ending in .php.

Just use index.php instead of index.html and you should be fine.

James Blond

You can set in .htaccess
php_admin_value auto_prependfile youfile.php

auto_prepend_file
see http://de2.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php