htaccess if statement

Question

I have the following line in my .htaccess file to select which version of PHP to use:

AddType x-httpd-php53 .php

This works great

Answer 1

Another alternative you can do is to change httpd.conf in the test environment to use ".htaccess-test" instead of ".htaccess".

This is simply done by modifying httpd.conf and adding the following line outside of any block:

AccessFileName .htaccess-test

NOTE: You can add AccessFileName inside a block if you want to apply it to a specific VirtualHost.

What this means is that the test environment will use .htaccess-test while the production environment will use .htaccess. Hence, you get the freedom of configuring each environment separately.

Then create a file named .htaccess-test adjacent to .htaccess. Modify .htaccess-test with your test configuration, then finally restart Apache Web server in the test environment server.