.htm extension

[apwade]

I have modified my existing webpage, and under going testing i am having problems with pages with the extension .htm. These pages have php embedded in them, but they display as a htm and do not run the php code.

Does anybody know what i am doing wrong? Is it something to do with the htaccess file, currently i do not have one in the main directory (do i need one)?

Cheers,

Andrew

[speed]

The normal default configuration for web servers is that only files ending in .php will be passed to PHP for processing.

You can try adding the following to your .htaccess file to cause .htm and .html files to be treated as PHP:

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

[Dubbya]

I'd think that the server couldn't run .php code in a file saved with the .htm extension.

Change the file extension to .php and the server will process the scripts before it serves up the pages.

[wige]

Note that making this change may not be desirable if most of your pages are pure html. If you add an entry to the htaccess as suggested, all html files will be parsed for php, which could put an unnecessary load on your server. Also, if you use a doctype tag, your normal pages could break. (The <? that opens the doctype definition is a php shortcut tag.) Some shared hosts also do not allow extensions to be changed in this way. If this is the only php page and you don't want the php extension, I would suggest using mod rewrite if that is an option on your server.

[apwade]

Thank you all for your help. I have opted for the addition of a .htacess file, as all my pages are php and it would not affect the load on the server.

[jordanmcclements]

Depending on what way your web server is configured you may have to add the following line to .htaccess instead of the one mentioned above (this is what I had to do to allow .htm files to be parsed as .php files):-

AddHandler php-script .htm

It worked perfectly for me with no messing around having to redirect pages etc..