AddHandler syntax

Question

This is my .htaccess file - currently very limited for now, as it's a test site at:

http://localhost/mydomain/testfile

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .$

Is this syntax correct so that any file can be served extensionless and still run as a PHP one, in theory?

I'm fairly new to this, and would appreciate the help.

Answer 1

You can use a <FilesMatch> directive

<Filesmatch "^[^\.]+$">
    ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

This can be placed in several different places depending on the scope that you want.

Answer 2

According to the AddHandler documentation, it doesn't appear to accept any sort of wildcard pattern, so I don't think that .$ is going to do anything other than match files that end with a literal .$.

If you want to set a default handler for all files in a directory, you're probably better off with the SetHandler directive.

Keep in mind that if you do something like this, you're limiting yourself to only servering PHP files from this directory...that means no images, no audio, no plain HTML; just PHP. It's unlikely that this is what you really want to do.

Answer 3

You can use mod_rewrite:

RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1 [T=application/x-httpd-php-source]