.htaccess htm as php does not work

[ykhamitkar]

Hi there,

I want to use my .htm files as .php.
For that I have put following script in my .htaccess file

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

but when I open the website it gives me following error

---------------------------------------Error-----------------------------------
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [e-mail] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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Please advice

Thanks,
Yogesh

[ak1dnar]

It's better to handle this question in the "Apache forum". So I'll move it from the Php from.

[Motoma]

Hi there,

I want to use my .htm files as .php.
For that I have put following script in my .htaccess file

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

but when I open the website it gives me following error

---------------------------------------Error-----------------------------------
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [e-mail] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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Please advice

Thanks,
Yogesh

Hi Yogesh,

This is not something that is typically done. When you see a website that serves dynamic content from pages that end in .htm or .html (this site, for example), they are using an apache module called mod_rewrite redirect the request for thread8004958.html to viewthread.php?id=8004958.

That said, I don't see a reason why you couldn't do this, except that htm and html already have an associated MIME type.

Are you using PHP as a module, or as CGI?