On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:26 -0600, Phillip Baker wrote: > Greetings All, > > I am at a new Gig. > So this is the existing setup so changing it at least in the short term is > not an option. > > We are in an IIS shop. > We have a bunch of files that are html, and in need of php functionality. > And that would be a BUNCH of files. > > I am interested in setting if I can set up IIS to use the php interpreter on > HTML files. > And then just start using the html files as php. > > There are just so many html files I would prefer to not do 301 redirects, > not header redirects and blot the server with empty files (nearly empty). > My preference is to use the existing files. > > Is there a way to make this happen? > Are there any pitfalls in making this happen that I will need to be aware > of? > > Blessed Be > > Phillip Yes, you just configure IIS to treat the .html extension the same as it does .php. Several things to note though. You can't control this on a site-by-site basis as far as I remember, so if you set this, it's for the whole server. Any plain html pages will be delivered more slowly. Second, PHP code isn't inserted into HTML, rather it's the other way around. This distinction is important when you are outputting content other than HTML from PHP code, or when you are using the header() function. Although IIS wouldn't be my server of choice, I think the one thing you may find lacking is Apaches .htaccess files. IIS can emulate most of the behaviour of this with plugins though, but I believe they tend to cost. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
