htaccess rule to parse php in html files not working

Question

can\'t for the life of me work out why this isn\'t working - on a dreamhost server, I\'ve created an htaccess file and added AddHandler php5-cgi .html .htm to a

Answer 1

try this

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

The above setting will work if the apache is picking php as a module.

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

or

 AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .html .htm

above will work if apache is executing php as CGI?

there is no harm i would say to put both of the above conditions together but try one over other and see if it work for you.

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