Hello

I have a CGI script that generates shtml pages. I want to place php code in there. I have did similar thing with regular html files using htaccess file and it works fine. When I try to parse shtml files using the same technique, it simple downloads the page intead of opening it. Please help.

Do you have .shtml registered as a PHP file type? E.g.
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html .shtml

Thanks for your quick reply. Where can I register it. Can you do it through Cpanel? If so, how?

I just saw the .htaccess bit you mentioned, you can put the line in there if you like.

That is the problem. Please go to http://www.seekpick.com. That is what I was talking about, it downloads the page instead of opening it.

I presume you fixed it now as the .shtml pages load ok?

Yes, I can't leave it as is. Any suggestions on how to make it work?

Now i'm lost. It looks fine to me, the .shtml pages are loading normally, or am i missing something?

Try now

I must be missing the plot A minute ago .shtml pages worked just fine, now they don't. I thought you wanted .shtml files to work (which they just did) but now they've broke .. what changed to make them break and why did you need to change anything if they did work ok? Sorry if i'm being a bit thick here

I need to parse shtml pages with php. I tried putting the code you gave me in htaccess file and the problem you see there is the result of it. I had same problem before. My question is, how do I parse them correctly. There has to be some other way or am I missing something?

Aah, sorry, i'm with it now. Try this in .htaccess:
RemoveHandler .shtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php .shtml

This should stop apache trying to server parse .shtml files and leave them to the php engine.

ok, it works now. Thank you for your help.

No problem, sorry for the confusion