htaccess - parsing php into html

Question

I recently played with a .htaccess file to make one server to parse PHP files. Yesterday I uploaded the same .htaccess file and tried to test a PHP file. But something went wrong: visiting my page the browser offers to download the the html page rather then viewing the page!

On the server the filenames end in .html.

I added the following to my .htaccess file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

I tried to find the htaccess file, but once uploaded it just disappears from the root dir. I tried to upload other scripts I've found browsing. I even tried to search for some problem on a hosting forum. Nothing helped. Please help!

Answer 1

Try this

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

OR

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

And remove other overriding handlers for application/x-httpd-php after above code.