Comments on: Running PHP on a html or htm page

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:33:02 +0000

I know I'm replying to a rather old post, but since FTP clients have driven me nuts with their inability to show "." files I thought I'd mention my FTP Client of choice (which has the setting you refer to). FileZilla! It's great. Check it out.

By: Bloggins

Bloggins — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

PHP on HTML
Ever needed to make a .htm or .html page act like a .php page? Maybe you have some php code…

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It is a file that would be found (or can be placed) inside any directory on your server. If you're using an FTP client to look for it – make sure that it will even SHOW YOU those files. Some FTP clients have a special setting that you need to change in order for it to display files that begin with a "." – To be honest – in any FTP application I've ever had – I've NEVER been able to find that setting!! I usually use my host provider's "file manager" through "cpanel" to navigate to and edit those files.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

just a slight modification to this comment I left here – I believe that if a sub directory below where you have your .htaccess file is accessed via an alternate URL (ie a different URL/domain that points specically to that SUBDIRECTORY) – then the settings in that outside .htaccess WILL NOT affect those pages! I'm not sure if the same occurs when the it's a SUBDOMAIN – as opposed – ie. subdomain.maindomain.com

By: Nick Queen

Nick Queen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Where is .htaccess found?

Stupid question I know!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Katia – when you change an .htaccess file, it will affect that directory and any and all within that directory. If the other people who share your hosting space are within the directory where your edited .htaccess file resides – then they will be affected too. If they are in a seperate directory path – then they shouldn't be affected.

By: Katia

Katia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, that's brilliant – exactly what I needed to know Thanks Jennifer

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you are running PHP with Microsoft IIS Go to Internet Information Service MMC snapin, Right click on Default Website, Properties, Documents Tab, add Default.php in the enabled default documents list and move it to the top of the list.

By: Katia

Katia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I'm coming into this very late indeed, but am relieved to find this little gem Thanks for sharing it

Having recently skun my blog (skun? is that a word? hehe), I am interested in the actual functionality behind this… I assume that this searches for all instances of htm html and php, and just goes to the one that is there?

My blog is on a site with other blogs, so changing the htaccess file so that my php pages will be brought up when people type index.html, won't affect the other pages who use index.html?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Or use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html /index.php

Inside your .htaccess file.

An excellent way of parsing PHP as HTML or .whatever so an overhaul of your site and URL rewriting in your .htaccess file will keep all your links the same. Sure to have some drawback along the way, maybe load speed and so on but then Apache isn't perfect as it's not made me a cuppa yet