Using .htaccess to make all .html pages to run as .php files?

Question

I need to run all of my .html files as .php files and I don\'t have time to change all of the links before our presentation tomorrow. Is there any way to \"hack\" this with

Answer 1

Create a .htaccess file at the root of your website and add this line:

[Apache2 @ Ubuntu/Debian: use this directive]

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

Or, from comment below:

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .html .htm

If your are running PHP as CGI (probably not the case), you should write instead:

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

None of the answers posted here worked for me.

In my case the problem was, by the one hand, that the .conf file (/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf or /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf) did not contain the directive AllowOverride All for the site directory, which caused the .htaccess to not been processed. To solve this, add:

<Directory /var/www/html/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

On the other hand, the problem was that the .htaccess was created by the root user, and therefore the apache user could not read it. So, changing the file owner solved definitely the problem:

chown www-data:www-data .htaccess

Answer 4

In My Godaddy Server the following code worked

Options +ExecCGI
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html
AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php .html