Vidahost and running php from within .htm files

sithlord · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:29

Anyone on Vidahost got php running from inside .htm files ?

I added:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

to .htaccess but it seems it doesnt work Vidahost has some custom stuff going on.

sithlord · 5 Mar 2014 at 19:21

Got it working with this:

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .htm .html

Although SSI includes eg, #include virtual= dont work anymore.

EDIT: nvm got it working using:

AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .htm .php

AHarvey · 5 Mar 2014 at 21:19

wouldn't you just save them as .php flles instead of .htm or am I being dense?

sithlord · 6 Mar 2014 at 03:37

AHarvey said:
wouldn't you just save them as .php flles instead of .htm or am I being dense?

Files already existed. Renaming them would lose search traffic.

Dj_Jestar · 6 Mar 2014 at 10:32

Do you not get punished for masking dynamic pages as static anymore?

thenewoc · 6 Mar 2014 at 10:53

Could you not change them to php files and then use mod_rewrite?

sithlord · 6 Mar 2014 at 13:30

Could use mod_rewrite but its just as easy to use .htaccess.

Dj_Jestar · 6 Mar 2014 at 15:03

Doing it in .htaccess uses mod_rewrite, if you are rewriting.

sithlord · 6 Mar 2014 at 16:59

Dj_Jestar said:
Doing it in .htaccess uses mod_rewrite, if you are rewriting.

No .htaccess is the directory level apache config file.

Mod rewrite is a module which is separate and must be enabled in apache. They happen to use the same file AFIAK.

Dj_Jestar · 6 Mar 2014 at 17:08

You can specify the rewrite rules in .htaccess, was the point I was making.

sithlord · 6 Mar 2014 at 17:15

Dj_Jestar said:
You can specify the rewrite rules in .htaccess, was the point I was making.

Sure but:

"Doing it in .htaccess uses mod_rewrite, if you are rewriting."

Implies that it automatically uses mod_rewrite. Its separate from the .htaccess file and needs to be enabled by the webserver.

Dj_Jestar · 7 Mar 2014 at 09:44

It's trivial to enable it. It's even enabled on a default installation. 99.99999999% of webhosts have it enabled already.

Vulcan · 7 Mar 2014 at 13:42

Dj_Jestar said:
It's trivial to enable it. It's even enabled on a default installation. 99.99999999% of webhosts have it enabled already.

Indeed, I'm with Vida and I use mod_rewrite via a .htaccess to remove .php?id=x.