urgent htaccess problem - html as php

[richcleverley]

Hi,

I have a added an .htaccess file to a folder on my server to parse html files as php (I need this for a client who's site I am redeveloping with php but he has a load of page specific advertising which he wants to still work).

The .htaccess file I have created has the following line in it

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

and the html file in the directory is just a basic php test file

<?
echo "tested correctly";
$test = "working";
echo $test;
?>

However, when I try to access the file I get a 500 error.

Any ideas what is going wrong with this?

I don't want to use redirects really, just want the html files to parse as php

Thanks,

Richard

 

[Wishdiak]

richcleverley,

Just a hunch, but is PHP installed on this server? What does your apache error log show?

Wishdiak
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[richcleverley]

Yep, php certainly is installed ( it runs the major script for the website).

Haven't looked at the apache error log yet, will do so now.

Richard

 

[richcleverley]

Oh well, my host seems to have sorted it now as it's suddenly all working.