editing .htaccess

[Elwood]

Hi guys, i'm trying to put rss feeds from BBC sport into a website, so I need to put php code into my html pages, but

1 Instructions for adding PHP code to an HTML site;

PHP scripts do not automatically work on html pages. If you have an HTML or (.HTM) based site, in order for PHP scripts to run on your .htm or .html pages you have a 2 options;

1. For Apache Servers Edit your .htacess with AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html Then Add the php code from the reader directly to your html pages

2. For Apache Servers Edit your .htacess with either .htm server parsed .html server parsed or
Addhandler application/x-httpd-php .html .php Then follow the directions below to use the php code from the reader with SSI Includes.

How do i edit this .htaccess? I log in with aceFTP to my host and I can see the .htaccess file, but I cant seem to download it or execute it or anything that I can do with the other files.

thanks

[Elwood]

I have the php code all working perfectly, as when I put it into a test .php file and upload it it displays just like I want it, I guess if I need to I can change every file from .html to .php but I dont want to do this as there is dozens of pages and they all link back and forward to each other so it will be much easier if I can do it like they say above!

thanks

[hxbro]

just create a file called .htaccess and add the AddType line in and ftp to the server, put it on the same directory as the html files

[Elwood]

Hi thanks, I just tried that, it didnt work. Now php files will load, but html ones wont load at all. Before they loaded but just didnt display the php content, now they wont load at all lol.

Do I need anything else in that htaccess file? right now I just have that single lin e in it.

thanks

[tam9]

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

try adding that mate

[Elwood]

thanks but not working either. I'm just going to change the pages to php rather than html, oh well I'll know next time and I'll do it that what to start with!

[hxbro]

I've used this before for wap pages (.wml files):

DirectoryIndex index.wml
AddType text/vnd.wap.wml wml
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .wml

so for html pages it'd be :

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html

[Elwood]

cheers guys, I gave in in the end and changed the pages to php... I'll try it that way next time and see if it works!