.htaccess question

I am having trouble setting up the coop ads on my website and I think the issue maybe the .htaccess file. I cannot see the ads on my page and the validation excercise in my coop control panel says the ads cannot be found on my site.

I set everything up exactly as the instructions say except for the .htaccess file...

I have regular html pages where I use SSI on the page so I already have this in my .htaccess file

.htm server-parsed
.html server-parsed


The coop instructions say that I need to have this code in the .htaccess file for it to work.

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

I do not think I can have both in there and when I tried deleting the server parsed info and using the addtype command, my other SSI calls no longer work on the page and the coop ads still do not work.

I would appreciate any help.

Michelle

 

what version of php is the server running? (you can use phpinfo() to find this out)

 

if you use ssi on all your pages the below should work

<!--#include virtual="/ad_network.php" -->
M

 

The version of PHP that I am running is
4.3.9

That information was taken from the Cpanel

Also that is the exact SSI call that I have in the page, but still no ads are showing.

Michelle

 

Michelle, what is the URL you have it installed on? Wondering if you can see any of that in the code when you view source..

 

I just checked and the ad_network_ads.txt file is full of links from digital point so obviously something is operating correctly, but still nothing is showing up on my pages.


Michelle

 

find-a-mesothelioma-lawyer.com

I checked the source code and I do not see the ads.


Michelle

 

Can you post the exact contents of the .htaccess file are with regards to SSI?

 

.htm server-parsed
.html server-parsed


That is all that is in the .htaccess file


Michellle

 

Try this instead of what you have above:

AddHandler server-parsed .html .htm
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

You may have to clip that last line if it does not work

 

Michy,
Did you ever get that working?

 

*SIGH*

I tried that too

I put the code exactly as you have it and also without the last line and still
nothing works, I am going to try adding the code to another site and see if the problem is just this particular server.

Michelle

 

Try this in your .htaccess file:

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

 

well, I don't think that will do it. But, what I would do at this point is run a test to see what is getting included if anything. I would put a couple of test files up on your machine, say: text.txt and text.php Put something like, "text file test" and "php file test" respecitvely in the files.

Then I would inlcude those files in a test page to see if they are both getting included in the file. If that works, then we can run some php test code in the second one to make sure it is getting parsed as php

 

I tried placing the code on another site and I am having the same problems there, I am not seeing the links. neither am I getting an error message so I assume that means the php script is parsing the info, it is just not showing the links on my pages. I tried Chmod 755 on the .txt, I tried Chmod 777 and 755 on the php page, I even tried recreating the files on my server in case there was a problem during upload ... nothing seems to work.

I tried a test as you suggested, I tested by using the same call on a blank html page and also by including another .txt file, nothing shows and no errors.
The links are being written to the .txt file though.

All of my current SSI includes are using php includes, so I know that my site parses php ok.

I really wish I could get this thing working.


Thanks for all your help so far
Michelle

 

I just finished reading a few threads where it says that the code needs to be on all pages. Will the ads start showing before I finish adding the code to all of my pages? Maybe that could be the problem?

*later*
I just created a footer.php file and I am including it with an SSI call. I have added the php code directly to that file and that seems to have solved my problem. I now have ads showing!!

I guess SSI , html and this co-op does not agree.


Small price to pay but I guess I'll just redo all of my footers to make them php includes and put the co-op code directly in the footer file, instead of using SSI.

Thanks again for all of the help.
Michelle

 

glad to hear you got it working.