AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

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I am moving from a server with PHP 5 to a new server with PHP 7, and I am having issues to tell Apache to parse .html as PHP scripts.

In my .htaccess file I have this line working correctly on my current server with PHP 5:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

But on the new server, that directive makes any .html file being downloaded instead than executed as a PHP script.

I know that on the current server with PHP 5 installed, PHP is configured with API set as "Apache 2.0 Handler" whereas on this new server it is configured as "FPM/FastCGI" and I guess that maybe that's the problem? If so, how can I overcome it without having to change that API setting?

I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you in advance for any help!

Did you restart apache2 after adding that to the configuration? — Markus Zeller
– Markus Zeller, Commented Sep 9, 2019 at 22:20
Yes, no avail. Also, since it is added to the .htaccess file, Apache restart shouldn't be necessary... thanks for your help though! — fablau
– fablau, Commented Sep 9, 2019 at 23:35
Thank you for your suggestion, I just checked all of what suggested there but nothing is working! Any more ideas? I am pretty desperate... tried everything I could think of! — fablau
– fablau, Commented Sep 10, 2019 at 1:05
When you are using fpm it may also require restarting that. Make sure the libmod-apache2-php is enabled. Can you open PHP files as intended? Try doing this directly in the apache config. Maybe the directive to allow .htaccess files is not set properly. — Markus Zeller
– Markus Zeller, Commented Sep 10, 2019 at 6:39

fablau · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-10 13:56:26Z

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After hours of research, I ended up reading this page:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/php-fpm-security-limit_extension-issue

And I fixed the problem by adding this code inside .htaccess:

<FilesMatch ".+\.html$">
        SetHandler "proxy:unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm-[myhostname].sock|fcgi://localhost"
</FilesMatch>

And to avoid the server to give me an 'access denied' error I had to put this line inside /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php-fpm.conf:

security.limit_extensions = .php .htm .html .inc .rss .rdf .xhtml

Then restarted PHP daemon with:

service php7.0-fpm restart

Now everything seems to work fine! Quite complex I'd say, and I think that'd due to the fact PHP is configured with the FPM/FastCGI API.

Comments and thoughts are welcome!

Thanks again to everyone.

answered Sep 10, 2019 at 13:56

fablau

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2 Comments

FoulFoot Over a year ago

You saved me. :) Same problem; your solution worked!

Jesse Over a year ago

This actually was my same problem. But, I'm wondering if anyone out there thinks that this is even necessary for security, given how difficult they made it. ??

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