I have just changed webservers. For some reason, my .htaccess file is preventing me from loading any .php files on my site, instead going to 404.

The server is running PHP 4.3.3, and this is the .htaccess I am using:

ErrorDocument 401 http://afireinside.org/401.html
ErrorDocument 403 http://afireinside.org/403.html
ErrorDocument 404 http://afireinside.org/404.html

AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

Has anyone any ideas why this is happenning, or can suggest a different way to write my .htaccess file?

I added the line

AddHandler php-script .php

and I am now prompted to save .php files rather than them display in the browser.

AddHandler server-parse .php

does the same thing.

Any assistance is appreciated; half my site is down until I fix this.

Talk to your webhost and make sure that appache has php installed properly and setup in the .conf file. Sounds like its not setup right there if its asking to be downloaded instead of beinf run.

.conf file altered, everything works now. Thanks.

a pleasure.