Can Apache fire up PHP in .html pages

Hi Folks,

Sorry if this is a bit remedial but I'd like to know if Apache (under Linux) can be made to pass PHP code over to PHP from within .html file rather that .php.

I've tried putting php tags in my .html pages but they get sent straight through to the browser. Is this correct?


Thanks.

Andy

You can set mime type in httpd.conf to read .html or .htm files as php files, and then all html files will have to be interpreted through php. Why can't you just name your files .php, .php3, .php4, or .phtml?

This is how my httpd.conf reads where it refers to different versions of php. You would just add .htm or .html to the correct line. NOTE using this on Win32 does not allow you to use both php3 and php4 as it does on *nixes.

AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
AddType application/x-httpd-php4 .php4 .php .htm .html <==like here

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by aarongb:
You can set mime type in httpd.conf to read .html or .htm files as php files, and then all html files will have to be interpreted through php. Why can't you just name your files .php, .php3, .php4, or .phtml?

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Thanks for that. I'll gve it a try. I want to do it that way for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, I'm playing with the idea of using PHP to build my site on my local Linux box but then using wget to to produce a copy of my site as pure HTML as my ISP doesn't have PHP. This gives me some of the advantages of PHP without the server side processing.

The second reason is that I want my first page, the one the browser picks up without being told, (index.html) to be PHP.


Cheers..

Andy

You can also do this in .htaccess if you only want some .html files passed to PHP.

>The second reason is that I want my first
>page, the one the browser picks up without
>being told, (index.html) to be PHP.

The cleaner way:
1. have access to Apache configuration file (in my case: /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf)
2. locate the line starting with DirectoryIndex
3. change the above line adding " index.php3" (w/o double quotes) at the end (mine reads "DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php3 index.wml" -- again w/o quotes)
4. in your starting web directory, be sure you have your index.php3 file and you deleted index.html file

that's all