index.html as php file

Hi,

I am a php newbie and I have a quite lame question: I am building my site ( http://thewearables.dynip.com ) and I would
like to include some php code in the index.html main page, but the php engine does not process it. It should be something in a configuration file. My box runs Suse Linux with Apache + php4
Thanks a lot

You could add this line to your httpd.conf

AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .html

The only problem here is that it will add a slight overhead to all your .html files (they will all be processed as PHP files) but then again this means that you can always embed php script into any .html file.

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i think u need to tell ur webserver (apache in ur case) that
DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.php3 index.phtml index.php

this allows ur webserver to search for index.htm/html if not found then give index.php3 file as default file to client browser

ranjeet

if the page has PHP code in it, it needs to have the .php3 extension on it. otherwise, i don't think that the server will parse it.
you could do a simple redirect in the index.html if you wanted to a index.php3.
that might be what you want..

Sorry, that might be

AddType application/x-httpd-php4 .html

(4 instead of 3 at the end) if you are using php4!

>>f the page has PHP code in it, it needs to have the .php3 extension on it.
Not really.

You can even have both:
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 .htm .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .html .htm

trollhunter, if most of your html documents are php and its extension is html, you should also give it a higher priority by putting it first..
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4

Putting this DirectoryIndex in .htaccess file in particular directory will override server httpd.conf file.