Is it possible to

no no renaming required. You can set any file extension specifically .htm .html .shtm etc to race through the php interpreter.

Ask your horting provider to set it up for you or if you have cpanel or access to apache its apache handlers

.htm

application/x-httpd-php
etc.
M

 

in your .htaccess file, insert the following:

<FilesMatch "\.htm$">
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.html$">
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

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This will work on a directory basis, or you can put it in your root directory only if I am not mistaken to handle all of the files on your website. it can also go in your httpd.conf file if you'd like. (most .htaccess directives can go there). I did that originally because there were rumors going around that search engines like .htm files better than .php files... but that was only a rumor.

 

Can you explain the above? I've had a reply from my host and they say I have to re-name all my files to php.

I can't use a .htaccess file on the server I'm hosted with.

Ian

 

That is very sad for a hosting provider.

If you're on apache / ...nix all they need to do is one definition in the apache conf file which will only be for your account and not generic and doesn't need restarting of apache.

But if they don't you may want to concider changing host as they will have other restrictions which may harm development.
As you wrote "no .hataccess" so this may limit mod_rewrite you may wish to use later etc etc.

To get an idea what is available for small money check totalchoicehosting.com

M

 

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