AddType in htaccess causes page to download

Question

I have read about 10 questions like this, but there seems to be no answer to this simple question.

What could cause .htm files to be downloading instead of executed

Answer 1

I had the same problem and couldn't find the answer here. Did find it on this cpanel forum though: https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/php-script-is-not-working-in-html-file.595195/

Their advice was to use this:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php56 .htm .html .shtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php

I was using PHP together with JSON though. After this PHP did work, but JSON didn't. Solved it by removing the AddType and sticking with the AddHandler

AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php56 .htm .html .shtml