.htaccess to make apache parse for things

**James Smith** · Sep 23, 2000, 12:33

I need apache to parse *.html and *.php for PHP & SSI.

What should i add ?

at the moment i have :

AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .html
addType text/x-server-parsed-html .html

When i use a .html, it doesn't parse for php.

What should the correct code be ?

Thanks
James

**Kevin Yank** · Sep 23, 2000, 12:35

To my knowledge, you can't parse a single file type for both PHP and SSI. You'll have to choose one or the other.

**James Smith** · Sep 23, 2000, 12:39

damn.

ok, well how do i get the effect of SSI to run a script.

at the moment i have this :



how can i get this effect in PHP ?

<?php require("/stato/stats.cgi"); ?>

is it that ?

**Kevin Yank** · Sep 23, 2000, 12:46

Normally, you'd just do:

include('filetoinclude.php');

But since the file you're including is a CGI that must be processed, you should instead use

passthru('/path/to/script.cgi');

**James Smith** · Sep 23, 2000, 12:52

that isn't by any chance only PHP4 ?

**Kevin Yank** · Sep 23, 2000, 13:16

No, but it's only on the Apache module version of PHP (i.e. won't work with the CGI version).

What problem(s) are you having?

**James Smith** · Sep 24, 2000, 04:21

well, it just returns a page with this code :

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

Instead of what Statomatic should return, which is this :



The code I'm using is :

<?php passthru("/stato/stats.cgi"); ?>

**James Smith** · Sep 24, 2000, 04:35

OK, passthru wasn't working.

I asked someone in #php on efnet, and they suggested using

virtual();

this works fine.

thanks
james

**James Smith** · Sep 25, 2000, 10:13

using virtual(); seems to work, but i seem not to be getting some of the stats. eg referer.

is this because of not using SSI ? would using this method provide exactly the same method as using SSI ?

**Kevin Yank** · Sep 25, 2000, 19:10

It's quite possible that some of the request-specific environment variables are not available to a CGI called with virtual(). This function is equivalent to  using SSI.

In an ideal world, you would port your CGI to PHP; however, I assume this is beyond your experience?

**James Smith** · Sep 26, 2000, 01:33

Unfortunately not. Plus, its a pre-compiled C++ script.

Guess I'll have to use the javascript image tag version. But this messes up the layout. Doh !

The SitePoint Forums have moved.

User Tag List

Thread: .htaccess to make apache parse for things

Thread Tools

Display

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions