Hi,

I have a client who's site is hosted by GoDaddy. Ugh. I have successfully put php code into HTML pages and can get them to be parsed by modifying the .htacess file with a "AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm .cgi .php".

However, as soon as I add that to the .htaccess file, the stats interface that GoDaddy provides them does not work. I get this:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, support@supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at anokacountyonline.com Port 80

If I remove the .html from "AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm .cgi .php".
stats work again, but obviously my php does not. I have tried other AddHandler and AddType lines that do not work for the php side of it.

GoDaddy gives my client no access to error logs or any kind of access to the stats folder. I checked the .html pages in the stats folder and it's straight html. I am not sure why having .html parsed through php first would screw things up in the folder.

Any help appreciated!

I use GoDaddy and had to add this line as well
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .php .phtml

Simple answer switch hosts (to me )

from what i seen on the net godaddy seems a very big but not a very fufilling host

i would suggest get some good cpanel hosting! then if you need to add this i think you can do it throught the panel

Also why cant you just use a .php extention?

Dan

Originally Posted by dansgalaxy

Simple answer switch hosts (to me )

from what i seen on the net godaddy seems a very big but not a very fufilling host

i would suggest get some good cpanel hosting! then if you need to add this i think you can do it throught the panel

Also why cant you just use a .php extention?

Dan

At least GoDaddy works and is a good price compared to a lot of the crappy ones out there.

Apache has to be configured. I don't know why they have it where you set it up. Maybe everyone that uses the service doesn't want it configured for php. If you set up php on a server, apache has to be configured for it. It's not done automatically.

yes i know... but if they have PHP isntalled on the server wouldnt they have it configured? and if they dont want to use PHP then it simple dont have files with .php ext Lol

If you will notice one part of the
AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm .cgi .php
means I can use php in files named with .html I don't have to name my files with a .php extension

Your stats package probably doesn't like php attempting to parse its cgi files. If your stats apps uses perl/cgi to output it's html pages, there's going to be a conflict.

How does this work?

"AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm .php"

It means that .php .html and .htm files are run through the php parser. Otherwise the html files are treated by Apache as html with no php.

so basically your just lazy

Originally Posted by dansgalaxy

so basically your just lazy

I would say I don't want to waste my time copying and pasting the exact same thing over and over and over. The same theory is behind OOP.

all you have to do is name the files .php instead

There are other reasons to have php parse html files. In well established sites (read old), many external site links may be pointing to the files. Adding php functionality by renaming all these files will send the 404 stats through the roof and bust a lot of links. You could add html to the x-httpd-php handler, or add a bunch of 301 redirects; the former is easier.

Originally Posted by dansgalaxy

all you have to do is name the files .php instead

I guess I could name them .elmerfudd if I wanted to

yea, one of my clients (possible soon to be EX-client) has a site (now suspended) where its a games site thing and the ext is .war - how friendly

that would be quite funny to have .somethingreallylongandstupidforaextension be parsed

imaging writing the links!