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Run php on .htm files in plesk 11.5

I am leasing a Unix (Ubuntu) virtual server.

It was recently compromised and so my ISP (WebFusion) removed all my sites and re-installed the server. It is my task to re-build all the websites it contained.

They replaced the old Plesk 9.4 with 11.5, and now I find .htaccess files are ignored, and so I must find another way to direct the server to push .htm files through PHP.

My test for this is done with two files called phpt.php and phpt.htm. Both contain simply

<?php echo "hello" ?>

The .php file works, but the .htm does not.

There is a place in the panels which seems designed to do this. In “Websites & Domains”, if I click “Web Server Settings”, I can see two areas where I can add “Additional directives”.

The comments say I should use httpd.include syntax, and if I research that I see I can say things like “AddHandler cgi-script .cgi”.
So I added “AddHandler php-script .htm” an also “AddHandler php5-script .htm”, saved and restarted the server.

This doesn’t work. Research suggests it’s because nginx is now included with Apache and they interact in such a way as to break this. Great.

So I removed those directives and researched it some more and found this article http://kb.sp.parallels.com/en/115773 which says I should make a “conf” directory under the domain root and place a file in it called “vhost.conf” which should contain (for CGI application implementations of PHP like mine):

<Files ~ (.html)>
    SetHandler None
    AddHandler php-script .html
    Options +ExecCGI
    allow from all
</Files>

I changed this to replace .html with .htm (removing the l) in both locations. I then restarted the server again, but it still doesn’t work.

So at this point I’m at a loss and I would appreciate any help anyone might be able to offer.

Thanks, Chris

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    Well, this is depressing. All of the stuff I read about nginx not passing directives to Apache is apparently not true. The Parallels article is also un-necessary. Michael - there is no option like the one you mentioned.

    The fields provided by Plesk for "additional directives" DO work, but I had the syntax wrong. I added exactly and only this to the "custom value" for the "Handlers" field:

    php-script .php .htm

    It works. Before I had a variety of erroneous versions of this - sometimes including "AddHandler" sometimes including "php5" and sometimes including multiple lines with different file types.

    But this works. No restart required.

    Thanks for all who tried to help me. I hope this will help others.

    Now on to the next migration nightmare.


  2. 0

    I use that in my root .htaccess with Plesk 12.0.18 (also with Apache and nginx):

    AddHandler php-script .htm

    That was ok with Plesk 11 (but not with 9…)

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    Go to “Web Server Settings” on your domain.

    Try to remove html and htm files from “Serve static files directly by nginx” or disable this setting.

    Web Server Settings

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