Hi,
If you're using php in your webpages, can you modify htaccess so it will work on html pages?
If so, then
1.) can anyone tell me what to put into htaccess for this purpose? and
2.) any good reasons not to do this?
Thanks,
Amy

What do you mean by work on HTML pages? Do you mean trick Apache into parsing HTML pages like PHP?

yes.
When I started using ssi and didn't want to change all my extensions to shtml I added the line

AddHandler server-parsed .html

to the htaccess file.

I wanted to know if there's something similar for php.

Found it!
In case anyone else ends up with the same question, the line to add to the .htaccess file is

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


AmyD

One thing you have to remember Amy is that this will add more burden on the Server, whether there is actually php code in the file or not. All .html files will get run thru the php pre-processor first. Follow?

If you are doing a general switching over of your coding from SSI (.shtml type file) to PHP, then I would advise at least removing the directive that you added for pre-processing your .html files as SSI. In effect, you will be running all of your files thru both processes when they do not need to be.

Got it. Thanks Ronnie.